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The Nias language is an Austronesian language spoken on Nias Island and the Batu Islands off the west coast of Sumatra in Indonesia. It is known as Li Niha by its native speakers. It belongs to the Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands subgroup which also includes Mentawai and the Batak languages.[1] It had about 770,000 speakers in 2000.[1] There are three main dialects: northern, central and southern.[2] It is an open-syllable language, which means there are no syllable-final consonants.
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The Niaslanguage is an Austronesian language spoken on Nias Island and the Batu Islands off the west coast of Sumatra in Indonesia. It is known as Li...
Nias (Indonesian: Pulau Nias, Nias: Tanö Niha) is an island located off the western coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. Nias is also the name of the archipelago...
Nias people are an ethnic group native to Nias, an island off the west coast of North Sumatra, Indonesia. In the Niaslanguage, the Nias people are known...
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Islands languages: Batak languages, seven closely related languages spoken by the Batak people in the highlands of North Sumatra. Niaslanguage, in Nias island...
the Nias people, the island was settled by six ancestor tribes but the current Nias people or Ono Niha—which means "human" in the Niaslanguage—arose...
involving blood samples of 440 Nias people in 11 villages on Nias island showed the Y-chromosome and DNA mitochondria of the Nias people are very similar to...
lips. Bilabial consonants are very common across languages. Only around 0.7% of the world's languages lack bilabial consonants altogether, including Tlingit...
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Language Technology Solutions, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati. (Mahanta 2012:220) (Mahanta 2012:218) "Assamese, alone among NIAlanguages except...
akin to nearby Austronesian languages such as Nias and Acehnese, with which it forms a linguistic area. Car is a VOS language and somewhat agglutinative...
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2015-10-25. Halawa, T.; Harefa, A.; Silitonga, M. (1983). Struktur Bahasa Nias [NiasLanguage Structure] (PDF) (in Indonesian). Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan...
Indo-Aryan (NIA), namely, the free omission of Agent NP from the perfective transitive clause. Rajasthani is the only Western NIAlanguage where the reflexes...
between 1000 AD-1200/1300 AD is designated the Old NIA stage because it is at this stage that the NIAlanguages such as Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi...
on the northern of Simeulue island. It is apparently related to the Niaslanguage. Ethnologue lists Lekon and Tapah as dialects. Simeulue is spoken in...
Portuguese: Tétum [ˈtɛtũ]) is an Austronesian language spoken on the island of Timor. It is one of the official languages of Timor-Leste and it is also spoken...
The Omo sebua is a traditional house style of the Nias people from Nias island, Indonesia. They are built only for the houses of the village's chiefs...
The Nias Expedition was a punitive expedition of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army to Nias at the end of 1855, which, with intervals, lasted until...
Languages spoken in the Republic of India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by 78.05% of Indians...
Aspects of Greek-Turkish Language Contact in Trabzon. Conference on Turkish in Contact, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) in the Humanities and...
2022. "Nias Hefti est sédunois !" [Nias Hefti is with Sion!] (in French). Sion. 26 June 2023. Retrieved 20 September 2023. "FCSG-Eigengewächs Nias Hefti...
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