Semai

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Semai is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Semai people, an indigenous Orang Asli group in Peninsular Malaysia.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Semai canonical 8

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Aslian language
Austroasiatic language
language
belongsTo Orang Asli languages
closelyRelatedTo Semnam
Temiar
continent Asia
country Malaysia
ethnicGroup Semai people
glottologCode sema1266
glottologName Semai
hasAlternativeName Semaq
Səmai
hasDialects Central Semai
Northern Semai
Southern Semai
hasDocumentation descriptive grammars
lexicons
text collections
hasLinguisticTypology Mon–Khmer branch language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
register contrast
rich consonant inventory
hasSociolinguisticSituation bilingualism with Malay
ISO639-3 sea
languageFamily Aslian
Austroasiatic
majorContactLanguage Malay
morphologicalType analytic
region Pahang
Perak
central Peninsular Malaysia
spokenBy Orang Asli
Semai people
spokenIn Malaysia
Peninsular Malaysia
linked to: West Malaysia
status endangered language
minority language
subfamilyOf Aslian
Austroasiatic
usedBy indigenous community
usedFor daily communication
oral tradition
usedInEducation limited community-based education
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 Semai
Aslian languageFamilyOf Semai
Aslian branch hasLanguage Semai
Temiar relatedGroups Semai
Senoi hasSubgroup Semai
Semai glottologName Semai
Central Semai ethnicGroup Semai