Western Pantar

E815005

Western Pantar is a Papuan language spoken on Pantar Island in eastern Indonesia, known for its complex verb morphology and membership in the Alor–Pantar language family.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Western Pantar canonical 3
Alor-Pantar area 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Alor–Pantar language
Papuan language
natural language
alternateName Lamma
linked to: Lamma Island

Lamma language
Pantar Barat
linked to: Pantar
continent Asia
country Indonesia
documentedIn articles on Alor–Pantar languages
descriptive grammars of Western Pantar
endangeredStatus vulnerable
glottocode west2574
glottologName Western Pantar
hasAlignment nominative–accusative
hasClauseStructure verb-initial in some clause types
hasFeature SVO basic word order
agreement prefixes on verbs
complex verb morphology
contrastive vowel length
head-marking morphology
rich pronominal system
hasLexicalBorrowingFrom Indonesian
Malay
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasNeighboringLanguage Adang
Blagar
Kaera
Sar
Teiwa
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
five-vowel system
hasPronounSystem distinguishes clusivity in first person plural
hasResearcher František Kratochvíl
Gary Holton
Marian Klamer
languageCodeISO639-3 lev
languageFamily Alor–Pantar
partOf Timor–Alor–Pantar languages
region eastern Indonesia
spokenBy ethnic groups of western Pantar Island
spokenIn East Nusa Tenggara
Indonesia
Pantar Island
spokenOn Pantar
subfamilyOf Alor–Pantar language family
usedFor daily communication in western Pantar communities
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

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

Eastern Indonesian linguistic area includesRegion Alor-Pantar area
linked to: Western Pantar
Western Pantar glottologName Western Pantar
Teiwa hasNeighbouringLanguage Western Pantar