Mambai

E647646

Mambai is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in East Timor, where it is one of the country’s major indigenous languages.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Mambai canonical 11
Central Mambai 1
North Mambai 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Malayo-Polynesian language
Timor–Babar language
alternativeName Mambae
Mambae (Timor)
Mambay
closelyRelatedTo Kemak
Tokodede
Tukudede
continent Asia
country East Timor
linked to: Timor-Leste
ethnicGroup Mambai people
geographicDistribution central highlands of East Timor
glottologCode mamb1293
glottologName Mambae
hasDialects Central Mambai
linked to: Mambai

North Mambai
linked to: Mambai

South Mambai
linked to: Mambai
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Indonesian
Portuguese
linked to: Portuguese language

Tetum
hasMorphologicalType moderately agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (in some analyses)
prenasalized stops
iso639-3 mgm
languageFamily Austronesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian languages
Timor–Babar languages
languageOf Mambai culture
majorIndigenousLanguageOf East Timor
linked to: Timor-Leste
officialStatus recognized national language of East Timor
region Aileu municipality
Ainaro municipality
linked to: Ainaro Municipality

Dili municipality (rural areas)
linked to: Dili Municipality

Liquiçá municipality
Manufahi municipality
spokenBy hundreds of thousands of speakers
spokenIn East Timor
linked to: Timor-Leste
statusInConstitution national language of East Timor
subclassOf Timoric language
usedAlongside Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia)
linked to: Indonesian

Portuguese
Tetum
usedFor local administration (in some areas)
local radio broadcasting (in East Timor)
oral communication
traditional ceremonies
wordOrder SVO (subject–verb–object)
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (14)

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

Mambae hasAlternativeName Mambai
Mambai hasDialects North Mambai
linked to: Mambai
Mambai hasDialects South Mambai
linked to: Mambai
Mambai hasDialects Central Mambai
linked to: Mambai
Kemak neighboringLanguages Mambai
Kaloli hasNeighborLanguage Mambai
Fataluku isDistinctFrom Mambai