Kedang (Lembata)

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Kedang (Lembata) is an Austronesian language spoken by the Kedang people on Lembata Island in eastern Indonesia.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
natural language
alternateName Kedang
belongsTo Flores–Lembata subgroup of Central Malayo-Polynesian
closelyRelatedTo Lamaholot language
coexistsWith Indonesian language
Lamaholot language
country Indonesia
endangeredStatus vulnerable (reported)
glottologName Kedang
hasAlternativeClassification sometimes grouped with Lamaholot dialect cluster
hasCulturalAssociation Kedang traditional religion and customs
hasDomain oral literature of Kedang people
traditional rituals of Kedang people
hasEthnicGroup Kedang people
hasGlottocode keda1252
hasLinguisticArea Lamaholot–Kedang contact area
hasLinguisticDescription described in works by Robert H. Barnes
subject of descriptive and anthropological studies
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative language
hasNeighborLanguage Lamaholot
other Flores–Lembata languages
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (reported)
prenasalized stops (reported)
hasResearchField Austronesian linguistics
anthropological linguistics
hasSociolinguisticSituation bilingualism with Indonesian is common
hasTransmission intergenerational transmission still present but under pressure
hasTypologicalFeature moderate number of consonant phonemes (reported)
moderate number of vowel phonemes (reported)
prepositions rather than postpositions (reported)
hasWordOrder SVO
ISO639-3Code ksx
isSpokenOn Lembata Island
linked to: Lembata
languageBranch Central Malayo-Polynesian
languageFamily Austronesian
languageGroup Flores–Lembata languages
languageSubfamily Malayo-Polynesian
region eastern Indonesia
spokenBy Kedang people
spokenIn East Nusa Tenggara
Indonesia
Lembata Island
linked to: Lembata
usedFor daily communication within Kedang communities
usedInEducation rarely used as medium of formal education
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Kedang language hasAlternativeName Kedang (Lembata)