Tangoa language
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| Tangoa | |
|---|---|
| Mara Tatagoa | |
| Region | Tangoa Island, Vanuatu |
Native speakers | 800 (2001)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tgp |
| Glottolog | tang1347 |
| ELP | Tangoa |
 Tangoa is not endangered according to the classification system of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Tangoa, or Leon Tatagoa, is an Oceanic language[2][3] or dialect[4] spoken on Tangoa Island, south of Espiritu Santo Island in Vanuatu. The community was an early settlement for Christian missionaries, leading to its use as a lingua franca in the area, having largely displaced the moribund Araki language spoken on Araki Island.[5]
Classification
[edit]Tangoa is generally described as a language,[2][3] but also as a dialect of the proposed, lexicostastically defined Southwest Santo language along with Araki, Akei, and Wailapa.[6][4]
Name
[edit]The name Tangoa is an endonym. In neighboring Araki, it is known as R̄ango.[7]
Characteristics
[edit]Tangoa is one of the few in the world possessing a set of linguolabial consonants.
References
[edit]- ^ Tangoa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ a b "Tangoa | Ethnologue Free". Ethnologue (Free All). Retrieved 2025-01-01.
- ^ a b "Glottolog 5.1 - Movono". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
- ^ a b Lynch, John; Crowley, Terry (2001). Languages of Vanuatu: A New Survey and Bibliography. pp. 51–52. Archived from the original on 19 July 2024.
- ^ Vari-Bogiri, Hannah (2008). "A Sociolinguistic Survey of Araki: A Dying Language of Vanuatu". Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 26 (1). doi:10.1080/14790710508668398.
- ^ Lynch, John (2019). "The Bilabial-to-Linguolabial Shift in Southern Oceanic: A Subgrouping Diagnostic?". Oceanic Linguistics. 58 (2): 292–323. doi:10.1353/ol.2019.0010. ISSN 0029-8115. JSTOR 26905160.
- ^ See entry R̄ango in the dictionary of Araki.