Kâte language

E619334

The Kâte language is an Austronesian language spoken in Papua New Guinea, particularly in the Morobe Province region.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Kâte language canonical 2

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Papuan language of wider communication
natural language
basicWordOrder SOV
country Papua New Guinea
endangermentStatus vulnerable
family Austronesian
glottocode kate1253
glottologName Kate
hasAlternativeName Kate
Kâte of Morobe
linked to: Morobe Province
hasBibleTranslation partial
hasCaseMarking postpositions
hasDialects Northern Kâte
Southern Kâte
Western Kâte
Yagomi Kâte
hasInclusiveExclusiveDistinction true
hasLinguisticArea Huon Gulf area
linked to: Huon Gulf
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasNumberDistinction dual
plural
singular
trial
hasPersonDistinction first person
third person
hasPersonDistinction second person
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
prenasalized stops
languageCodeISO639-3 kmg
locatedNear Finschhafen
Lae
region Morobe Province
spokenIn Huon Peninsula
Morobe Province
Papua New Guinea
subclassOf Huon Gulf language
linked to: Huon Gulf languages
subfamily Malayo-Polynesian
subgroup Huon Gulf
North New Guinea
Oceanic
Western Oceanic
usedAsLinguaFranca true
usedBy Kâte people
usedIn Lutheran missions in Morobe Province
usedInEducation mission schools
usedInReligion Lutheran church
linked to: Lutheranism
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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