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Papuan Malay

vernacular Malay used in Indonesian New Guinea
Class type of: Eastern Indonesian Q12473446

Facts

6 properties
Instance of
creole, modern language, vernacular[3][4]
Country
Indonesia[2]
Subclass of
Eastern Indonesian[5]
Ethnologue language status
3 Wider Communication[8]
Indigenous to
Indonesia[7]
Native label
bahasa Melayu Papua[6]
🏷️ Also known as
en Irianese Malay en Irian Malay en Papuan Malay en pmy fi Papuan malaiji fr malais papou id bahasa Irian id bahasa Irian Jaya id bahasa Melayu Papua id Melayu Papua it Lingua malese papuana ja パプア・マレー語 pl język malajski papuaski ru папуанский малайский язык sv papuamalajiska th ภาษามลายูปาปัว tr Papua Malaycası tr pmy zh 巴布亞馬來語
🔖 Identifiers · 9
Ethnologue.com language code
pmy
Exact match
publications.europa.eu
Freebase ID
/m/05sxb32
Glottolog code
papu1250
IETF language tag
pmy
ISO 639-3 code
pmy
Statistics Indonesia language code
1060 1
Topic's main category
Category:Papuan Malay language
WALS lect code
iir

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🔗 Connections
Instance of 3
creole, vernacular, modern language
Country 1
Indonesia
Indigenous to 1
Indonesia
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Summary

Papuan Malay is a creole[1].

Related Entities

Indonesia

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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