Blagar

E814998

Blagar is a Papuan language spoken primarily on Pura and nearby islands in eastern Indonesia, belonging to the Alor–Pantar language family.

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Label Occurrences
Blagar canonical 7

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Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Papuan language
language
continent Asia
country Indonesia
documentedIn descriptive grammars of Alor–Pantar languages
endangermentStatus vulnerable
family Alor–Pantar
glottologCode blag1246
glottologName Blagar
hasAlternativeName Belagar
Pura language
hasDialect Kaera (sometimes classified separately)
Pura Blagar
Tereweng Blagar
hasFeature complex deictic contrasts
numeral classifiers (limited)
prepositions
rich demonstrative system
verb-final clitics
hasMorphologicalType moderately agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (analyzed in some descriptions)
simple consonant inventory
hasResearcher Gary Holton
Marian Klamer
hasTypologicalArea Alor–Pantar linguistic area
iso639-3Code beu
languageFamily Trans–New Guinea (proposed)
languageStatus minority language
lexifierContactLanguage Alor Malay
Indonesian
macroArea Papunesia
neighboringLanguage Adang
Alor Malay
Teiwa
primaryReligionOfSpeakers Christianity (minority)
Islam (majority)
linked to: Islam
region eastern Indonesia
spokenBy Blagar people
spokenIn Alor Archipelago
linked to: Alor archipelago

East Nusa Tenggara
Pura Island
subclassOf Alor–Pantar language
usedAs community language
home language
wordOrder SVO
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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