Seimat language

E655625

The Seimat language is an Oceanic Austronesian language spoken primarily on Seimat Island in the western Admiralty Islands of Papua New Guinea.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Seimat language canonical 4

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Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
natural language
continent Oceania
country Papua New Guinea
family Austronesian languages
glottologCode seim1238
glottologName Seimat
hasAncestor Proto-Austronesian language
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language
Proto-Oceanic language
hasNeighbouringLanguage Manus languages
Wuvulu-Aua language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (reported for related Admiralty languages)
iso639-3 ssg
isPartOf Papua New Guinea linguistic area
languageBranch Admiralty Islands languages
languageFamilyDivision Admiralty Islands subgroup of Oceanic
languageStatus minority language
region Manus Province
Seimat Island
western Admiralty Islands
spokenIn Seimat Island
nearby islands in western Admiralty Islands
subfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages
subfamilyOf Admiralty Islands languages
Western Admiralty Islands languages
subgroup Oceanic languages
wordOrder SVO
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Referenced by (4)

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

Admiralty Islands languages hasMember Seimat language
Manus people traditionalLanguage Seimat language
Wuvulu-Aua language neighboringLanguage Seimat language
Admiralty linkage hasMember Seimat language