East Vanuatu languages
| East Vanuatu | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution | East Vanuatu |
| Linguistic classification | Austronesian
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| Glottolog | nort3195 (partial match) |
East Vanuatu is a group of languages spoken in the north-eastern areas of the Vanuatu archipelago. They form a branch of the Southern Oceanic languages .
Languages
The languages included in the East Vanuatu group are, from north to south:[citation needed]
Torres and Banks Islands
- Torres
- Banks
- Lehali
- Löyöp (AKA Lehalurup)
- Mwotlap (AKA Motlav)
- Volow (AKA Valuwa)
- Alo-Teqel (extinct)
- Lemerig
- Vera'a (AKA Vatrata)
- Mwesen (AKA Mosina)
- Vurës (AKA Vureas)
- Mota
- Nume
- Dorig (AKA Wetamut)
- Koro
- Olrat
- Lakon (AKA Lakona)
- Mwerlap (AKA Merlav)
Phonological, grammatical and lexical data on the 17 languages of the Torres and Banks Is can be found in François (2005, 2007, 2011); François (2012) is a sociolinguistic study of the area.
Penama
- Ambae–Maewo family
- Sungwadia (AKA Marino)
- Central Maewo (AKA Peterara)
- Baetora
- East Ambae (AKA Lolovoli)
- West Ambae
- Pentecost family
Paama–Ambrym
Notes
References
- François, Alexandre (2005), "Unraveling the history of the vowels of seventeen northern Vanuatu languages", Oceanic Linguistics, 44 (2): 443–504, doi:10.1353/ol.2005.0034
- François, Alexandre (2007), "Noun articles in Torres and Banks languages: Conservation and innovation", in Siegel, Jeff; Lynch, John; Eades, Diana (eds.), Language Description, History and Development: Linguistic indulgence in memory of Terry Crowley, Creole Language Library 30, Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 313–326
- François, Alexandre (2011), "Social ecology and language history in the northern Vanuatu linkage: A tale of divergence and convergence", Journal of Historical Linguistics, 1 (2): 175–246, doi:10.1075/jhl.1.2.03fra.
- François, Alexandre (2012), "The dynamics of linguistic diversity: Egalitarian multilingualism and power imbalance among northern Vanuatu languages", International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 214: 85–110, doi:10.1515/ijsl-2012-0022