Lakalai

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Lakalai is an Oceanic language spoken by an indigenous community in Papua New Guinea.

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Lakalai canonical 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
language
continent Oceania
country Papua New Guinea
hasAlternativeName Nakanai
Nakanai language
hasBasicWordOrder SVO
hasDialect Bileki dialect
Loso dialect
Maututu dialect
Ubae dialect
Vele dialect
hasDomain local trade and social interaction
traditional oral literature
hasEthnolinguisticGroup Nakanai people
hasLanguageCodeStandard ISO 639-3
hasLinguisticClassification Austronesian > Malayo-Polynesian > Oceanic > Western Oceanic > Nakanai
hasLinguisticTypology head-initial language
hasMorphologicalType mostly analytic
hasNeighboringLanguage Baining languages
Kol
Kove
Mangseng
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
simple consonant inventory typical of Oceanic languages
hasStatus minority language in Papua New Guinea
hasTransmission intergenerational transmission under pressure from Tok Pisin and English
isEndangered true
iso639-3Code nak
isPartOf Papuan languages context (geographical, not genetic)
isSubjectOf descriptive linguistic studies on Oceanic languages
languageBranch Oceanic languages
languageFamily Austronesian languages
languageSubfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages
region West New Britain Province
spokenBy indigenous community in Papua New Guinea
spokenIn New Britain
Papua New Guinea
usedFor daily communication within local communities
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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