Batuley language

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The Batuley language is an Austronesian language spoken by a small community in Indonesia’s Aru Islands.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Batuley language canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (29)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
natural language
continent Asia
country Indonesia
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Batuley people
glottologName Batuley
hasAlternativeName Batulei
linked to: Batuley
hasGlottocode batu1247
hasMorphologicalType moderately agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (reported)
hasType vernacular language
hasWordOrder SVO (subject–verb–object)
ISO639-3Code bay
languageContactWith Indonesian language
languageFamily Austronesian languages
locatedInTimeZone UTC+9
neighboringLanguage Dobel language
Kola language
Mariri language
numberOfSpeakers small community
region eastern Indonesia
riskFactor language shift to Indonesian
spokenIn Aru Islands
Maluku province
subfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages
subgroup Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages
usedFor daily communication
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Aru Islands hasLanguage Batuley language
Dobel language hasNeighboringLanguage Batuley language