Kedang

E682540

Kedang is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on Lembata Island in eastern Indonesia.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Kedang canonical 6
Kédang 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (31)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
natural language
belongsToEthnicGroup Kedang people
country Indonesia
hasAlternateName Kedang language
Kedangese
hasClauseType verb-initial in some constructions
hasContactWith Indonesian
Lamohang
other Flores–Lembata languages
hasISO6393Code ksx
hasLinguisticArea Flores–Lembata area
linked to: Sumba–Flores
hasMajorDescription Kedang: A Study of the Collective Thought of an Eastern Indonesian People
hasMorphosyntacticAlignment nominative–accusative
hasNumberOfSpeakers several thousand
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
five-vowel system
prenasalized stops
hasResearcher Robert Barnes
hasTypology analytic language
hasWordOrder SVO
isEndangered true
islandGroup Lesser Sunda Islands
languageFamily Austronesian languages
primaryLocation Lembata Regency
linked to: Lembata
region Nusa Tenggara Timur
linked to: East Nusa Tenggara
spokenIn Indonesia
spokenInRegion eastern Indonesia
spokenOn Lembata Island
linked to: Lembata
subfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (8)

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

Kedang people hasEndonym Kedang
Kedang people hasExonym Kédang
linked to: Kedang
Kedangese alternateName Kedang
Kedangese alternateName Kédang
linked to: Kedang
Kedangese glottologName Kedang