Kiai language
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| Kiai | |
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| Spoken in | Vanuatu |
| Native speakers | 450 (date missing) |
| Language family |
Austronesian
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| Official status | |
| Official language in | Vanuatu |
| Regulated by | No official regulation |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | frt |
The Kiai language is a vernacular of a native people in the highlands of the central Espiritu Santo Island, Sanma Province, Republic of Vanuatu.
[edit] Name variants
Another name is Fortsenal. The speakers call their language na vara kiai. Fortsenal (Vorozenale) is one of the villages where the speakers live.
[edit] External references
- Kiai language at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
- Vara Kiai: a Kiai wordlist / Tomas Ludvigson, Auckland [N.Z.] : Dept. of Anthropology, University of Auckland, 1989
- Crowley, Terry. 2000. The Language Situation in Vanuatu.
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