Kove of New Britain

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Kove of New Britain is an Oceanic Austronesian language spoken by the Kove people on the island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea.

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Label Occurrences
Kove of New Britain canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
language
continent Oceania
country Papua New Guinea
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Kove people
hasAlternativeName Kove
Kove language
hasCulturalAssociation Kove maritime traditions
hasDomain traditional Kove culture
hasInfluenceFrom English
Tok Pisin
hasLinguisticTypology SVO word order
hasMorphology agglutinative morphology
hasNeighboringLanguage Baining languages
Mangseng language
Nakanai language
hasPhonologicalFeature five-vowel system
typical Oceanic consonant inventory
hasSpeakerCommunity coastal villages of western New Britain
isMinorityLanguageIn Papua New Guinea
ISO639-3Code kvc
languageBranch Western Oceanic
languageFamily Austronesian
Oceanic
languageGroup Meso-Melanesian languages
locatedNear Bismarck Sea
region West New Britain Province
spokenBy Kove people
spokenIn New Britain
Papua New Guinea
subclassOf Malayo-Polynesian language
usedFor daily communication in Kove communities
oral tradition
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kove language hasAlternateName Kove of New Britain
Kove hasAlternativeName Kove of New Britain