Teanu (or Puma, Buma) is the main language spoken on the island of Vanikoro, in the easternmost province of the Solomon Islands. The language receives...

of the group, Banie. Teanu has currently only one inhabited village, Puma. Teanu has given its name to Teanu, the main language of Vanikoro. The latter...

island’s dominant language, Teanu. The language name makes reference to an ancient village in the northwest of the island Banie. In the language Lovono, which...

during the 2008 U.S. presidential election Puma language, a language of Nepal Teanu language or Puma, a language of the Solomon Islands Carlos Landín Martínez...

known as Teanu. "Teanu: A language of Solomon Islands". Ethnologue. Retrieved 26 June 2018. Maps of Vanikoro, showing location of Puma on Teanu island....

vaka-Viti) is an Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family spoken by some 350,000–450,000 ethnic Fijians as a native language. The 2013 Constitution...

Polynesian languages form a genealogical group of languages, itself part of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian family. There are 38 Polynesian languages, representing...

replaced by Teanu, the main language of Vanikoro. The late Emele Mamuli was a prolific storyteller who could speak fluently the three languages of Vanikoro:...

[ʔoːˈlɛlo həˈvɐjʔi]) is a Polynesian language and a critically endangered language of the Austronesian language family that takes its name from Hawaiʻi...

Banie (Teanu pronunciation: [ᵐbanie]) is the main island of the Vanikoro group, in the Temotu province of Solomon Islands. The only other inhabited island...

e vagahau Niuē) is a Polynesian language, belonging to the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Austronesian languages. It is most closely related to Tongan...

Taumako Bay. The three languages spoken by the Melanesian population of Vanikoro are all Oceanic, of the Temotu subgroup: Teanu or Buma (800 speakers)...

faʻa Sāmoa or Gagana Sāmoa, pronounced [ŋaˈŋana ˈsaːmʊa]) is a Polynesian language spoken by Samoans of the Samoan Islands. Administratively, the islands...

Tungaru), is an Austronesian language spoken mainly in Kiribati. It belongs to the Micronesian branch of the Oceanic languages. The word Kiribati, the current...

historical event. On that occasion, he also documented the three languages spoken on Vanikoro – Teanu, Lovono and Tanema – two of which are highly endangered....

Lendamboi, Letemboi, or Small Nambas, is one of the Malekula Interior languages of Vanuatu. Materials on Karnai are included in the open access Arthur...

Kumak, also known as Nêlêmwa-Nixumwak after its two dialects, is a Kanak language of northern New Caledonia. Kumak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription...

Yotafa, is an Austronesian language spoken in Jayapura Bay in Papua province, Indonesia. It was once thought to be a Papuan language. Notably, Tobati displays...

Pascuan (/ˈpæskjuən/) or Pascuense, is an Eastern Polynesian language of the Austronesian language family. It is spoken on Easter Island, also known as Rapa...

Numèè (Naa Numee, Naa-Wee), or Kwényi (Kwenyii), is a New Caledonian language, the one spoken at the southern tip of the island, as well as on the Isle...

Asumboa, Tanimbili Vanikoro: Teanu, Lovono, Tanema François (2009) notes that the lexicons of all three Vanikoro languages are highly distinct from each...

Malayo-Polynesian (CEMP) languages form a proposed branch of the Malayo-Polynesian languages consisting of over 700 languages (Blust 1993). The Central...

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...

Ajië (also known as Houailou (Wailu), Wai, and A'jie) is an Oceanic language spoken in New Caledonia. It has approximately 4,000 speakers. A glottal stop...

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...

Wagap) is an Oceanic language spoken on the island of New Caledonia, in the area of Poindimié, Koné, and Touho. The language has approximately 3,300...

is the language of Rapa Iti, in the Austral Islands of French Polynesia, and of Mangaia in the Cook Islands. It is an Eastern Polynesian language. There...

striking feature of the Marquesan languages is their almost universal replacement of the /r/ or /l/ of other Polynesian languages by a /ʔ/ (glottal stop). Like...

Dobu or Dobuan is an Austronesian language spoken in Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. It is a lingua franca for 100,000 people in D'Entrecasteaux...

publishers, musicians, and writers Buma, another name for the language better called Teanu (Solomon Islands) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...