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    related to Éfaté Island. Languages of Efate - Bibliography of the island's indigenous languages South Efate language Wikipedia entry. Work on Efate is available...
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  • The Nafsan language, also known as South Efate or Erakor, is a Southern Oceanic language spoken on the island of Efate in central Vanuatu. As of 2005[update]...
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  • North Efate, also known as Nakanamanga or Nguna, is an Oceanic language spoken on the northern area of Efate in Vanuatu, as well as on a number of islands...
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  • Nakanamanga (Nguna); Namakir Efate Island: South Efate The following list of 19 Central Vanuatu languages (excluding the Malakula languages) is from François et...
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  • mixed language or zonal auxiliary language of Efate Island in Vanuatu. There are half a dozen languages spoken on Efate, of which the languages of North...
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    South Vanuatu, and New Caledonian languages, and perhaps also some Central Vanuatu languages of Ambrym and Efate.: 823–826  Nevertheless, languages in...
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    Port Vila (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    The name of the area is Efil in the native South Efate language and Ifira in neighbouring Mele-Fila language. Vila is a variant of these names. Ifira is...
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    1849-50. The local language is Lelepa language, spoken by about 400 people. It is sometimes considered a dialect of South Efate language. On the southwestern...
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  • Vanuatu Malakula Epi-Efate (various others) Clark, Ross (2009). Leo Tuai: A comparative lexical study of North and Central Vanuatu languages. Canberra: Pacific...
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  • Njav is a Malakula language of Vanuatu. There are about 10 speakers. François et al. 2015. François, Alexandre; Franjieh, Michael; Lacrampe, Sébastien;...
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    in some languages of Vanuatu, such as North Efate, South Efate and Namakura, to represent a sound [k͡p]. It is also used in the Yanesha language. The letter...
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    five languages, apart from the national language of Bislama, spoken over Shefa including the Ifira-Mele, South Efate, Nakanamanga of North Efate and outer...
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    or was used as a grapheme in several languages: in some languages of Vanuatu, such as North Efate, South Efate and Namakura, it represents a labial-velar...
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    tə-GAH-log; [tɐˈɡaːloɡ]; Baybayin: ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the ethnic Tagalog people, who make up a quarter of the...
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    of Éfaté, and are closely related to one another and the other languages of Éfaté and central Vanuatu in the language group Central Vanuatu languages. "Shepherd...
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  • Lelepa (Havannah Harbour) is a small Oceanic language of Vanuatu, spoken on Lelepa, off northwest Efate Island. Lelepa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription...
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  • of a grammar with a media corpus is Thieberger's grammar of South Efate (2006). Language documentation has also given birth to new specialized publications...
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  • Studies, University of the South Pacific. p. 15. OCLC 8485767. Thieberger, Nick (2006). A Grammar of South Efate: An Oceanic Language of Vanuatu. University...
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    Tanna (island) (category Articles containing Bislama-language text)
    most populous in the whole country (after Efate and Espiritu Santo). It is home to five indigenous languages, which also rank among the most vibrant in...
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    indoˈnesija]) is the official and national language of Indonesia. It is a standardized variety of Malay, an Austronesian language that has been used as a lingua franca...
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    Cebuano (/sɛbˈwɑːnoʊ/ se-BWAH-noh) is an Austronesian language spoken in the southern Philippines. It is natively, though informally, called by its generic...
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  • Malay: Bahasa Melayu, Jawi: بهاس ملايو) is an Austronesian language that is an official language of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, and that...
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    Latin auster "south" and Ancient Greek νῆσος (nêsos "island"). Most Austronesian languages are spoken by island dwellers. Only a few languages, such as Malay...
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    Vanuatu (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    the Banks Islands in the north to Aneityum in the south. Notable Lapita sites include Teouma on Éfaté, Uripiv, and Vao off the coast of Malakula, and Makue...
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    region of West Java, it is also used as a literary language. It was the court language in Palembang, South Sumatra, until the palace was sacked by the Dutch...
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    The Bisayan languages or Visayan languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages spoken in the Philippines. They are most closely related to Tagalog...
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  • Mele-Fila (Ifira-Mele) is a Polynesian language spoken in Mele and Ifira on the island of Efate in Vanuatu. In spite of their differences, Mele and Fila...
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  • Nicholas Thieberger (category Linguists of Australian Aboriginal languages)
    research on Indigenous Australian languages, on the South Efate (Nafsan) language of Vanuatu, and for his work in language documentation. He established Wangka...
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    Ati language Manide–Alabat Kalamian languages (2 languages of northern Palawan) South Mindanao languages (5 languages) Sangiric languages (4 languages of...
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    Oceanic languages. The country's three official languages are of foreign origin: English, French, and Bislama, an English-based creole language. Additional...
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