Baluan-Pam language

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The Baluan-Pam language is an Oceanic language spoken on Baluan and Pam Islands in Papua New Guinea’s Admiralty Islands group.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Baluan-Pam language canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
belongsTo Micronesian and Melanesian contact area
continent Oceania
country Papua New Guinea
endangeredStatus vulnerable
geneticAffiliation Austronesian
hasAlternativeName Baluan
Baluan-Pam
linked to: Baluan

Pam
hasDialect Baluan dialect
Pam dialect
higherLevelFamily Admiralty Islands languages
Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages
Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian languages
Oceanic languages
iso639-3Code blq
languageFamily Oceanic languages
languageSubfamily Admiralty Islands languages
partOf Admiralty Islands language group
region Manus Province
spokenIn Admiralty Islands
Baluan Island
Pam Island
Papua New Guinea
typologicalFeature SVO basic word order
usedFor daily communication on Baluan Island
daily communication on Pam Island
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.

Admiralty Islands languages hasMember Baluan-Pam language
Baluan Island hasLanguage Baluan-Pam language
Admiralty linkage hasMember Baluan-Pam language