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Encyclopedia > North and Central Vanuatu languages
North and Central Vanuatu Languages
Spoken in: North and Central Vanuatu
Genetic
classification:
Austronesian

 Malayo-Polynesian
  Central Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
   Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
    Oceanic
     Central-Eastern Oceanic
      Remote Oceanic
       North and Central Vanuatu
Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families (families hereforth). ... Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families (families hereforth). ... The Austronesian languages are a family of languages widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia. ... The Malayo-Polynesian languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion, because: it is patent nonsense. ... The family of Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages is a subgroup of the Central Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages. ... The Oceanic languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages, conatining approximately 450 languages. ... The family of Central-Eastern Oceanic languages is a subgroup of the Oceanic languages. ... The family of Remote Oceanic languages is a subgroup of the Central-Eastern Oceanic languages. ...

The family of North and Central Vanuatu languages is a subgroup of the Remote Oceanic languages. It consists of almost 200 languages. The family of Remote Oceanic languages is a subgroup of the Central-Eastern Oceanic languages. ...


Components

  • East Santo languages
    • North East Santo languages
    • South East Santo languages
  • Malekula Interior languages
    • Labo
    • Malekula Central languages
    • Small Nambas languages
  • Northeast Vanuatu-Banks Islands languages
    • Central Vanuatu languages
    • East Vanuatu languages
    • Epi languages
    • Malekula Coastal languages
    • West Santo languages

  Results from FactBites:
 
Ethnologue: Vanuatu (2813 words)
Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, North and Central Vanuatu, Northeast Vanuatu-Banks Islands, Malekula Coastal.
Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, North and Central Vanuatu, Northeast Vanuatu-Banks Islands, Central Vanuatu.
Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, North and Central Vanuatu, East Santo, North.
Oceanic subgroups (5840 words)
Austronesian languages are spoken from Madagascar in the west to Easter Island in the east, and from Taiwan and Hawaii in the north to New Zealand in the south.
He maintains that speakers of languages outside the Western Oceanic group migrated from the area in which POC was spoken, and that the languages of the Western Oceanic group evolved by a process of dialect differentiation from that point on.
North and Central Vanuatu: Extensive surveys of all the languages of Vanuatu by Tryon (1976) and of the languages of south Malekula by Charpentier (1982) now provide a firm platform for comparative work to be built on.
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