Kensiu

E783467

Kensiu is an endangered Aslian language spoken by an indigenous Semang (Negrito) community in northern Peninsular Malaysia and southern Thailand.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Kensiu canonical 6
Kensiu’ 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Aslian language
endangered language
language
associatedWithPeople Orang Asli
country Malaysia
Thailand
documentationStatus poorly documented
endangermentStatus moribund
severely endangered
ethnicGroupAssociated Semang
glottocode kens1248
hasAlternativeName Kensiuq
Kensiu’
linked to: Kensiu

Kensiw
Kensiwq
linked to: Kensiuq
hasDomain oral tradition
hasLinguisticArea Mainland Southeast Asia sprachbund
hasLinguisticFeature complex vowel system
register-based phonation contrasts
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive nasalization
register contrast
rich vowel inventory
hasSpeakerCommunityType hunter-gatherer
intergenerationalTransmission declining
isMinorityLanguageIn Malaysia
Thailand
ISO6393Code kns
languageBranch Northern Aslian
languageFamily Austroasiatic
languageShiftTo Malay
Thai
languageSubfamily Aslian
region Kedah
Yala Province
linked to: Yala
spokenBy Negrito community
Semang people
indigenous community
spokenIn Malaysia
Thailand
spokenInRegion northern Peninsular Malaysia
southern Thailand
subclassOf Austroasiatic language
typology analytic language
usedByMinority true
wordOrder SVO
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.

Aslian hasLanguage Kensiu
Aslian languageFamilyOf Kensiu
Aslian branch hasLanguage Kensiu
Kensiu hasAlternativeName Kensiu’
linked to: Kensiu
Batek closelyRelatedTo Kensiu
Kensiu language hasAlternativeName Kensiu’
linked to: Kensiu
Kensiu language ethnicity Kensiu