Dengka language

E809246

The Dengka language is an Austronesian language spoken on Rote Island in Indonesia, belonging to the Rote branch of the Timor–Babar languages.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Dengka language canonical 2

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Statements (39)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
natural language
branch Rote languages
classificationAuthority Ethnologue
Glottolog
continent Asia
country Indonesia
endangeredStatus vulnerable
family Austronesian languages
glottocode deng1265
glottologName Dengka
hasDialects Oenale
hasLinguisticDescription grammatical sketches in Austronesian linguistics literature
iso639-3Code dnk
isSpokenBy Dengka people
languageBranch Rote branch
languageFamily Austronesian
languageStatus minority language
linguisticArea Timor–Alor–Pantar area
locatedOn western Rote Island
linked to: Rote Island
macroArea Papunesia
neighboringLanguage Lole language
Oenale language
Termanu language
phonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (reported for some Rote languages)
region Lesser Sunda Islands
relatedTo Dela-Oenale language
Lole language
Termanu language
script Latin script
spokenIn East Nusa Tenggara
Indonesia
Rote Island NERFINISHED
subfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages
subgroup Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages
Timor–Babar languages
typologicalFeature SVO basic word order
prefixing and suffixing morphology
writingSystem Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

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

Rote languages hasPart Dengka language