Ura is a moribund language of the island Erromango in Vanuatu. It was thought to be extinct, after massive depopulation of the island in the nineteenth...
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Lena tributary Ura (Yula), Russia, a Yula tributary Ura language (Papua New Guinea) Ura language (Vanuatu) Fungwa language, Nigeria Ura (dance), of the...
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Erromango, and Aniwa) of Vanuatu. Erromango family Southern: Sie, Sorung† Northern: Ifo (Utaha)†, Ura (See Erromanga language#Linguistic situation for...
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belonging to the Austronesian family of languages. Vanuatu is the country with the highest density of languages per capita in the world: it currently shows...
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The Central Vanuatu languages form a linkage of Southern Oceanic languages spoken in central Vanuatu. Clark (2009) provides the following classification...
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The Southern Oceanic languages are a linkage (rather than family) of Oceanic languages spoken in Vanuatu and New Caledonia. It was proposed by John Lynch...
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The Malakula languages are a group of Central Vanuatu languages spoken on Malakula Island in central Vanuatu. Unlike some earlier classifications, linguist...
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Oceanic language spoken on Epi Island, in Vanuatu. Maii at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) Tryon, D. "Mae-Morae and the languages of Epi...
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Espiritu Santo languages (alternatively Santo languages) are a group of North Vanuatu languages spoken on Espiritu Santo Island in northern Vanuatu. Tryon (2010)...
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Njav is a Malakula language of Vanuatu. There are about 10 speakers. François et al. 2015. François, Alexandre; Franjieh, Michael; Lacrampe, Sébastien;...
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[Many of the languages listed here are not classified as North Vanuatu in their articles, and do not link back here] The North Vanuatu languages form a linkage...
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(also called Bigbay) is a language of the Oceanic subgroup of Austronesian languages. It is spoken on Santo island in Vanuatu. It distinguishes four numbers...
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Wusi (Wusi-Kerepua) is an Oceanic language spoken on the west coast of Espiritu Santo Island in Vanuatu. Wusi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription...
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discovered Ura speakers. Terry Crowley counted six speakers of Ura in the mid-1990s. The South Vanuatu language group includes these four languages. Erromango...
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reconstructed ancestor of the seventeen languages of the Torres and Banks Islands of Vanuatu. Like all indigenous languages of Vanuatu, it belongs to the Oceanic branch...
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Caledonian languages also known as Kanak languages form a branch of the Southern Oceanic languages. Their speakers are known as Kanaks. One language is extinct...
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scattered in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands or Vanuatu. The most prominent Polynesian languages, by number of speakers, are Samoan, Tongan, Tahitian...
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language of Malakula Vanuatu (PDF). University of Auckland. Duhamel, Marie (2015) Ethnolinguistic vitality of the language of Atchin, central Vanuatu:...
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Bieria, or Vovo (Wowo), is an Oceanic language spoken on Epi Island, in Vanuatu. Bieria language at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013) Bieria at Ethnologue (18th...
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Aore is a recently extinct Oceanic language spoken on Aore Island, just off Espiritu Santo Island in Vanuatu. Aore at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) v t...
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Oceanic language spoken on Gaua island in Vanuatu. Its 280 speakers live in the village of Koro, on the south coast of Gaua. Koro is a distinct language from...
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Lemerig is an Oceanic language spoken on Vanua Lava, in Vanuatu. The language is no longer actively spoken. The 2 remaining speakers live on the northern...
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Tirax (Dirak, Mae) is an Oceanic language spoken in north east Malakula, Vanuatu. Tirax Tirax pronunciation Problems playing this file? See media help...
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Eton is a small Oceanic language of Vanuatu, in the southeast of Efate Island. Eton at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) v t e v t e...
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also known as Naman, is an endangered Oceanic language of central Malakula, Vanuatu. Many of the languages in Malakula can be referred to by different names...
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Terry Crowley (linguist) (category Linguists of Oceanic languages)
Press. 1998. Ura. Languages of the World/Materials 240. München: LINCOM EUROPA. 1999. Ura: A disappearing language of Southern Vanuatu. Canberra: Pacific...
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Bura is an Espiritu Santo language of Vanuatu with 300 speakers. Tryon, Darrell. 2010. The languages of Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu. In John Bowden and Nikolaus...
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Nokuku (Nogugu) is an Oceanic language spoken in the north of Espiritu Santo Island in Vanuatu. François (2015), p.19 François, Alexandre; Franjieh, Michael;...
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Baki (or Burumba) is an Oceanic language spoken on Epi Island, in Vanuatu. Baki at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) v t e v t e...
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Bierebo, or Bonkovia-Yevali, is an Oceanic language spoken on Epi Island, in Vanuatu. Bierebo language at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013) Bierebo at Ethnologue...
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