Tiwi

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Tiwi is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken on the Tiwi Islands, within sight of the coast of northern Australia. It is one of about 10% of Australian languages still being learned by children. Traditional Tiwi, spoken by people over the age of fifty by 2005, is polysynthetic. However, this grammatical complexity has been lost among younger generations. Tiwi has around one hundred nominals that can be incorporated into verbs, most of them quite different from the corresponding free forms. Unlike other Australian languages, which were once lumped together in a single language family, Tiwi has long been recognized as a language isolate.
Source : DBpedia

Names (more)

[en] Tiwi language
[pl] Język tiwi
[ru] Тиви
[es] Idioma tiví
[sv] Tiwi

Language type : Living

Language resources for Tiwi

Open Languages Archives

Wiktionary - Category:Tiwi language [en]
Wiktionnaire - Catégorie:tiwi [fr]

Technical notes

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Following BCP 47 the recommended tag for this language is tiw.

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ISO 639 Codes

ISO 639-3 : tiw

Linked Data URIs

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/tiw
http://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:tiw

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Sources

Authority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: tiw

Freebase ISO 639-3 : tiw
GeoNames.org Country Information

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