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Alas

Batak language spoken by the Alas ethnic group
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Summary

Alas is a language[1]. Alas ranks in the top 5% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (16 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Alas is in the country of Indonesia[3].
  • Alas's instance of is recorded as language[4].
  • Alas's instance of is recorded as modern language[5].
  • Alas's ISO 639-3 code is recorded as btz[6].
  • Alas's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh87003999[7].
  • Alas's subclass of is recorded as Batak[8].
  • Alas's IETF language tag is recorded as btz[9].
  • Alas's said to be the same as is recorded as Alas[10].
  • Alas's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 3.43, 'lon': 97.81}[11].
  • Alas's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0j7l5j6[12].
  • Alas's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Alas-Kluet Batak language[13].
  • Alas's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 687984[14].
  • Alas's Glottolog code is recorded as bata1292[15].
  • Alas's WALS lect code is recorded as alx[16].
  • Alas's Ethnologue.com language code is recorded as btz[17].
  • Alas's indigenous to is recorded as Aceh[18].
  • Alas's indigenous to is recorded as Sumatra[19].
  • Alas's indigenous to is recorded as North Sumatra[20].
  • Alas's Statistics Indonesia language code is recorded as 0015 4[21].
  • Alas's exact match is recorded as http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/BTZ[22].
  • Alas's Ethnologue language status is recorded as 6a Vigorous[23].
  • Alas's LyricsTranslate ID is recorded as language/more-languagesalas[24].
  • Alas's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007539136905171[25].
  • Alas's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/1990598d-24b5-4349-883b-bf1fadec0a7b[26].

Why It Matters

Alas ranks in the top 5% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (16 views/month).[2] Alas has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] Alas is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

Related Entities

Indonesia Sumatra

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . World Atlas of Language Structures. Retrieved . wals.info. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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