Uripiv language

Uripiv
Spoken in	Vanuatu
Region	Malakula
Native speakers	9,000 for dialect continuum  (date missing)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Central-Eastern Southern Oceanic Vanuatu North Vanuatu Santo–Malekula Malekula Malekula Coastal Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin Uripiv
Language codes
ISO 639-3	upv

Uripiv, or more precisely Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin, is a language spoken on Vanuatu. Uripiv is spoken today by about 9,000 people. Literacy rate of Uripiv speakers in their own language is about 10 - 30%.

Uripiv proper forms a dialect chain with other dialects, namely Wala-Rano and Atchin. Uripiv dialect is the most northerly of these, and has 85% of its words in common with Atchin, at the opposite (southern) end of the chain.

Uripiv is one of the few well-documented languages that use the rare bilabial trill.