Löyöp language

E851584

The Löyöp language is an Oceanic language spoken by a small community in the Banks Islands of northern Vanuatu.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Löyöp language canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
language
approximateNumberOfSpeakers few hundred
belongsToSubgroup North–Central Vanuatu languages
continent Oceania
country Vanuatu
endangeredStatus vulnerable
hasAlternativeName Loyop
Löyöp
Löyöp (Banks Islands)
linked to: Banks Islands
hasBorrowingsFrom Bislama
English
French
hasClauseStructure head-initial
hasDialect Löyöp village variety
hasDomain vernacular communication
hasLexicalOrigin Proto-Oceanic
hasLinguisticTypology SVO word order
prepositional language
hasMorphologyType moderately agglutinative
hasNeighbouringLanguage Lehali language
Mwotlap language
Vurës language
linked to: Vurësian
hasNounClassification possessive classifiers
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
prenasalized stops
hasResearcher Alexandre François
hasStressPattern primarily penultimate stress
hasWordOrder subject–verb–object
isMinorityLanguageIn Vanuatu
ISO639-3Code lop
languageFamily Austronesian
Oceanic
locatedOn Ureparapara Island NERFINISHED
region Banks Islands
spokenBy small community
spokenIn Banks Islands
Vanuatu
northern Vanuatu
status local community language
subfamilyOf Austronesian languages
Oceanic languages
usedAlongside Bislama
English
French
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

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

Banks Islands hasNotableLanguage Löyöp language
Torres–Banks languages hasMember Löyöp language
Torres–Banks language group hasMember Löyöp language