ISO 639-3 · kkvkkv
Austronesian family
Kangeanic
Bĕsa Kangėan
Kangeanic is a language of the Malayo-Sumbawan branch (Austronesian), spoken in Indonesia. Wikidata counts 110,000 first-language speakers (2000). Wikidata describes it as “Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by the Kangeanese ethnic group, native to the Kangean Archipelago”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
kkv- Glottocode
kang1289- Family
- Austronesian
- EGIDS
- 6a Vigorous
- Centre point
- -6.98, 115.65
- Wikipedia
- 24 language editions
110,000first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
1countries
4scripts
4levels in the tree
6aEGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Kangeanic · Bĕsa Kangėan |
|---|---|
| Also called | Kangeanese, Kangean language, Kangeanese language, Kangean |
| L1 speakers | 110,000 (2000) |
| Written in | Latin script, Javanese script, Pegon script, Mbojo script |
Vitality
EGIDS 6a Vigorous6a
Stable. Spoken by all generations at home, with or without schooling — EGIDS 5 and 6a.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Austronesian to Kangeanic
The branches above Kangeanic, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Countries
Also spoken in Indonesia
engEnglishIndo-European · 1.13 bn0 · InternationalcmnMandarin ChineseSino-Tibetan · 1.07 bn1 · NationalcmnStandard ChineseSino-Tibetan · 897.1 maraArabicAfroasiatic · 315.4 mSafeindIndonesianAustronesian · 199 m1 · NationaljavJavaneseAustronesian · 84.3 m4 · EducationaltamTamilDravidian · 83 m2 · ProvincialmsaMalayAustronesian · 77 mnanSouthern MinSino-Tibetan · 48.3 m6a · VigoroushakHakka ChineseSino-Tibetan · 48.2 m5 · Developing