Vao language
| Vao | |
|---|---|
| Region | Vao Island and northern Malakula, Vanuatu |
Native speakers | 1,900 (2001)[1] |
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Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
vao |
| Glottolog |
vaoo1237[2] |
Vao is an Austronesian language of the Oceanic branch spoken by about 1,900 people on Vao Island and on the nearby shores of Malakula Island, Vanuatu.[3]
Characteristics
Vao is one of the few languages of the world that possesses linguolabial consonants [4].
References
- ↑ Vao at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Vao". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Ethnologue report for Vao
- ↑ Ladefoged, Peter; Maddieson, Ian. The sounds of the world's languages. Blackwell Publishers. pp. 18–19. ISBN 9780631198147.
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