Ende language

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Ende language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Flores Island in eastern Indonesia by the Ende ethnic group.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Ende language canonical 8

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
natural language
belongsTo Austronesian languages of Flores
closelyRelatedTo Keo language
Lio language
Nage language
Ngada language
continent Asia
country Indonesia
ethnicGroup Ende people
family Austronesian
glottologName Ende
hasAlternativeName Bahasa Ende
Endeese
hasDialects Ende coastal dialects
Ende highland dialects
hasFeature prefixation
reduplication
suffixation
hasGlottocode ende1239
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (in some analyses)
five-vowel system (in common descriptions)
prenasalized stops
ISO639-3 end
languageArea Flores–Lembata linguistic area
languageFamilyBranch Central Malayo-Polynesian
linguisticClassificationSource Austronesian comparative linguistics
macroArea Papunesia
morphologyType agglutinative
neighboringLanguage Keo language
Lio language
Nage language
Ngada language
primaryLocation Ende Regency
region Flores Island
linked to: Flores
spokenIn East Nusa Tenggara
eastern Indonesia
status regional language in Indonesia
subfamily Malayo-Polynesian
subfamilyOf Central Flores languages
subgroup Central Flores
typology SVO word order
usedBy Ende ethnic group
usedIn local oral tradition
ritual speech
traditional songs
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Referenced by (8)

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

Ende localLanguage Ende language
Ende people language Ende language
Keo language closelyRelatedTo Ende language
Sumba–Flores languages hasMember Ende language
Sikka Regency localLanguage Ende language
Ngadha language neighboringLanguage Ende language
Central Flores hasLanguage Ende language