Longgu

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Longgu is an Oceanic Austronesian language spoken in the Solomon Islands, known for its complex verbal morphology and rich system of possessive constructions.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Longgu canonical 5

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Statements (27)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
natural language
country Solomon Islands
hasLinguisticFeature alienable–inalienable possession distinction
complex verbal morphology
possessive classifiers
rich possessive construction system
subject agreement marking on verbs
tense–aspect–mood marking on verbs
hasMorphologicalType predominantly analytic with agglutinative verbal morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
simple consonant inventory
hasPossessionType direct possession
indirect possession via classifiers
hasResearch descriptive grammar
studies of possessive constructions
studies of verbal morphology
languageCodeISO639-3 lgu
languageFamily Austronesian
region Central Solomon Islands
spokenIn Guadalcanal
Solomon Islands
subfamily Oceanic
subgroup Southeast Solomonic languages
wordOrder SVO
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.

Longgu people ethnonym Longgu
Longgu people hasEndonym Longgu
Longu hasAlternativeName Longgu
Longu hasGlottologName Longgu