Nias

Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia
Intangible natural_language Q2407831
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Summary

Nias is a natural language[1]. Nias draws 589 Wikipedia views per month (natural_language category, ranking #292 of 734).[2]

Key Facts

  • Nias is in the country of Indonesia[3].
  • Nias's instance of is recorded as natural language[4].
  • Nias's instance of is recorded as modern language[5].
  • sound is named after Nias[6].
  • human is named after Nias[7].
  • Nias is named after Nias[8].
  • Nias is a type of Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands[9].
  • Nias's writing system is recorded as Latin script[10].
  • Nias's Wikimedia language code is recorded as nia[11].
  • Nias's coordinate location is recorded as {'latitude': 1.3, 'longitude': 97.4}[12].
  • Nias's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Nias language[13].
  • Nias's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'amount': '+825768'}[14].
  • Nias's native label is recorded as Li Niha[15].
  • Nias's native label is recorded as bahasa Batu[16].
  • Nias's indigenous to is recorded as Sumatra[17].
  • Nias's indigenous to is recorded as North Sumatra[18].
  • Nias's exact match is recorded as http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/NIA[19].
  • Nias's Ethnologue language status is recorded as 5 Developing[20].
  • Nias's Wikimedia Incubator URL is recorded as https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wb/nia[21].
  • Nias's Wikimedia Incubator URL is recorded as https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wn/nia[22].
  • Nias's Wikimedia Incubator URL is recorded as https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wq/nia[23].

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Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include natural language[4] and modern language[5]. Nias is a type of Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands[9].

Origins

Things named after include sound[6]; human[7], an organisms known by a particular common name[24]; and Nias[8], an ethnic group[25], in Indonesia[26].

Why It Matters

Nias draws 589 Wikipedia views per month (natural_language category, ranking #292 of 734).[2] Nias has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] Nias is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [24] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

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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