native name for the language is Netvaar, and speakers refer to their language as Nakaraan taha Lenakel 'the language of Lenakel'. Lenakel has been extensively...
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as a major port of entry. It is the center of the Lenakel language, one of the five Tanna languages native to the island; Vanuatu's official tongue, the...
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John Lynch (linguist) (category Articles containing Tok Pisin-language text)
on Lenakel, a language indigenous to the island of Tanna in southern Vanuatu, and provided a descriptive and historical account of the language's phonology...
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endangered Polynesian language of the Austronesian language family, originating in and native to the Hawaiian Islands. It is the native language of the Hawaiian...
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Voiced labial–velar nasal (category Articles containing Lenakel-language text)
Efate, or Lenakel), the same segment is spelled ⟨m̃⟩ with a combining tilde. List of phonetics topics Doubly articulated consonant List of languages with [ŋm]...
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Tanna, is a language spoken on the eastern coast of Tanna Island in Vanuatu. It is closely related to the North Tanna and Lenakel languages. Whitesands...
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iTaukei 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...
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Erromanga language#Linguistic situation for a description) Tanna family Southern: Kwamera (South Tanna), Southwest Tanna Northern: Lenakel (West Tanna)...
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Tanna (island) (category Articles containing Bislama-language text)
constitute two of the languages. The remaining majority of Tanna islanders speak four dialects, being North Tanna in the northwest, Lénakel in the west-central...
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Tungaru), is an Austronesian language spoken mainly in Kiribati. It belongs to the Micronesian branch of the Oceanic languages. The word Kiribati, the current...
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population of about 1,200, most of them Melanesians; the major languages of the area are Lenakel language, and the national tongue Bislama, an English creole. The...
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faʻa Sāmoa or Gagana Sāmoa, pronounced [ŋaˈŋana ˈsaːmʊa]) is a Polynesian language spoken by Samoans of the Samoan Islands. Administratively, the islands...
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Polynesian languages form a genealogical group of languages, itself part of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian family. There are 38 Polynesian languages, representing...
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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...
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ნენა Spoken in: Georgia and Turkey Lenakel – Netvaar Spoken in: Tanna Island, Vanuatu Leonese – Llïonés Official language in: the Spanish autonomous community...
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Malfaxal (Malvaxal), also known as Na'ahai, is one of the many languages of the Malekula Coast group of Vanuatu. Malfaxal at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)...
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Pascuan (/ˈpæskjuən/) or Pascuense, is an Eastern Polynesian language of the Austronesian language family. It is spoken on Easter Island, also known as Rapa...
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Oceanic language spoken on Epi Island, in Vanuatu. Maii at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) Tryon, D. "Mae-Morae and the languages of Epi...
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Zire (Sîshëë), also known as Nerë, is an extinct Oceanic language of New Caledonia. It has been extinct since April 2006. Zire is sometimes considered...
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Lamen (Lamenu, Varmali) is an Oceanic language spoken on Epi Island, in Vanuatu. Materials on Lamenu are included in the open access Arthur Capell collections...
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Suau, also known as Iou, is an Oceanic language spoken in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken by 6,800 people and a further 14,000...
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TNL (category Articles containing Romanian-language text)
TNL may refer to: Lenakel language, spoken in Vanuatu National Liberal Youth (Romania) (Romanian: Tineretul Național Liberal), the youth organisation of...
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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...
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Marovo is an Austronesian language of the Solomon Islands. It is spoken in the New Georgia Group on islands in Marovo Lagoon and on the neighbouring islands...
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is an indigenous language of Choiseul Province, Solomon Islands. Paradisec has a number of collections that include Varisi language materials. Varisi...
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Hakö is an Austronesian language of Buka Island, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. Materials on Hakö are included in the open access...
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nearly-extinct language spoken on the island of Utupua, in the easternmost province of the Solomon Islands. Tryon, Darrell (1994). "Language contact and...
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(Sye), is the primary language spoken on the island Erromango in the Tafea region of the Vanuatu islands. The other Erromanga languages are either moribund...
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Mangap-Mbula, Mangaaba, Mangaawa, Mangaava, Kaimanga) is an Austronesian language spoken by around 2,500 people on Umboi Island and Sakar Island in the Morobe...
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Awad Bing, or Biliau, is an Austronesian language spoken by about 1,100 people in seven villages near Astrolabe Bay, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea...
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