Kéo language
Austronesian language spoken in Flores, Indonesia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kéo or Nagé-Kéo is a Malayo-Polynesian dialect cluster spoken by the Kéo and Nage people (‘ata Kéo 'Kéo people') that reside in an area southeast of the Ebu Lobo volcano in the south-central part of Nusa Tenggara Timur Province on the island of Flores, eastern Indonesia, largely in the eponymous Nagekeo Regency.
Kéo | |
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Nage-Keo | |
Native to | Indonesia |
Region | Central Flores |
Ethnicity | Nage, Kéo |
Native speakers | (100,000 cited 1993)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Either:xxk – Ke’onxe – Nage |
Glottolog | nage1238 |
Kéo belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Bima-Lembata subgroups of the Austronesian language family and there are approximately 40,000 speakers.[2]
Kéo is sometimes referred to as Nage-Kéo, Nage being the name of a neighbouring ethnic group that is generally considered culturally distinct from Kéo; however, whether or not the two languages are separate entities is ambivalent.[3]
Uncommon to Austronesian languages, Kéo is a highly isolating language that lacks inflectional morphology or clear morphological derivation. Instead it relies more heavily on lexical and syntactic grammatical processes.[4]