Wamesa language

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The Wamesa language is an Austronesian language spoken by indigenous communities in the West Papua region of Indonesia.

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Wamesa language canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
natural language
country Indonesia
endangeredStatus vulnerable
glottocode wame1241
glottologName Wamesa
hasAlternativeName Wamesa-Wondama
linked to: Wondama

Wandamen
Wondama
hasContactInfluenceFrom Indonesian language
Papuan languages
hasDialect Bintuni dialect
Windesi dialect
Wondama dialect
hasLinguisticArea Papuan contact zone
hasMorphologicalFeature subject agreement markers
verbal prefixes
verbal suffixes
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
prenasalized stops
hasSpeakerNumberEstimate several thousand speakers
isClassifiedBy Ethnologue
Glottolog
isEndangered true
iso639-3Code wad
isSubjectOf descriptive grammars
phonological studies
isUsedIn daily communication in some villages
local cultural practices
oral tradition
languageFamily Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
South Halmahera–West New Guinea
region Manokwari Regency
Teluk Wondama Regency
spokenBy Wamesa people
spokenIn Bird’s Head Peninsula
Indonesia
West Papua
subfamilyOf Austronesian languages
Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian languages
South Halmahera–West New Guinea languages
usedBy indigenous communities in West Papua
wordOrder SVO
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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