Lakon is an Oceanic language, spoken on the west coast of Gaua island in Vanuatu. The language name Lakon [laˈkɔn] refers originally to the area where...
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Gaua (section Population and languages)
Olrat and Lakon have Gaō [ɣaˈʊ] and Lakon [laˈkɔn]; and the immigrant language Mwerlap has Gō [ɣʊ] and Lakon [laˈkɔn]. Other Torres-Banks languages that have...
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Near-open front unrounded vowel (category Articles containing Lakon-language text)
(eds.), The Turkic languages, Routledge, pp. 283–300 Campbell, George L. (1995), "Persian", Concise compendium of the world's languages (1st publ. ed.),...
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mentions a place south of Lakon village under the Mota name Ulrata. A few decades later, Sidney Ray mentions the language briefly in 1926 under the same...
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Koro, Olrat, Lakon, and Mwerlap. Proto-Torres-Banks, as reconstructed with the comparative method from the attested daughter languages, evidently represented...
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– Vera'a Koro – Olrat – Lakon Dorig – Koro – Olrat – Lakon Olrat – Lakon Lehali – Löyöp – Mwotlap – Volow 15 Banks languages together (Lehali – Löyöp...
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Voiced labial–velar nasal (category Articles containing Lakon-language text)
labial–velar nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this...
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tə-GAH-log; [tɐˈɣaː.loɡ]; Baybayin: ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the ethnic Tagalog people, who make up a quarter of the...
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Lakhminia railway station, Bihar, India lkn, the ISO 639-3 code for Lakon language, Vanuatu Latin Kings (gang), a large Latino and Caribbean street and...
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is a list of endangered languages of Oceania, based on the definitions used by UNESCO. An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling...
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indoˈnesija]) is the official and national language of Indonesia. It is a standardized variety of Malay, an Austronesian language that has been used as a lingua franca...
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Lake, and Lakon. From the English word lake, for the inland body of water. It is ultimately derived from Latin "lacus". In English language the name "Lake"...
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Malay: Bahasa Melayu, Jawi: بهاس ملايو) is an Austronesian language that is an official language of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, and that...
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pronounced [ʔoːˈlɛlo həˈvɐjʔi]) is a Polynesian language and critically endangered language of the Austronesian language family that takes its name from Hawaiʻi...
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باسا جاوا, IPA: [bɔsɔ d͡ʒɔwɔ]) is a Malayo-Polynesian language of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily by the Javanese people from the...
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Caluyanon is a regional Western Bisayan language spoken in the Semirara Island Group, Caluya, Antique in the Philippines. Most of its speakers use either...
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Vanua Lava (section Population and languages)
other Torres-Banks languages include Lo-Toga Venielave [βəniəlaˈβə] and Lakon Vanōlav [βanʊˈlaɸ]. All of these terms come from a Proto-Torres–Banks form...
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Vassilios Lakon (Greek: Βασίλειος Λάκων or Greek: Βασιλείου Ι Λάκωνος, 1831–1900) was an astronomer, mathematician, experimental physicist, philologist...
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The Austronesian languages (/ˌɔːstrəˈniːʒən/ AW-strə-NEE-zhən) are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland...
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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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Malayo-Polynesian languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages, with approximately 385.5 million speakers. The Malayo-Polynesian languages are spoken...
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pronunciation: /ˈtɒŋ(ɡ)ən/ TONG-(g)ən; lea fakatonga) is an Austronesian language of the Polynesian branch native to the island nation of Tonga. It has around...
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The Karay-a language (Kinaray-a, Binisayâ nga Kinaray-a or Hinaraya; English: Harayan) is an Austronesian regional language in the Philippines spoken...
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The Formosan languages are a geographic grouping comprising the languages of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan, all of which are Austronesian. They do not...
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idioma samareño meaning Samar language) is an Austronesian language and the fifth-most-spoken native regional language of the Philippines, native to Eastern...
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Torba Province (section Languages)
Vurës, Mwesen, Mota, Nume, Dorig, Koro, Olrat, Lakon, and Mwerlap. With an average of 550 speakers per language, Torba is one of the most linguistically dense...
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/tʃuːˈkiːz/, also rendered Trukese /trʌˈkiːz/, is a Chuukic language of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily on the islands of Chuuk in the Caroline...
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schemes for Southeast Asian languages (see the articles for the respective language families). The five established major language families are: Austroasiatic...
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The Central Pacific languages, also known as Fijian–Polynesian languages, are a branch of the Oceanic languages spoken in Fiji and Polynesia. Ross et...
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Atauran is an Austronesian language spoken on Atauro island and in Manatuto Municipality, East Timor. It is closely related to Wetarese and Galoli. Atauran...
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