Vurës language

Vurës
Native to	Vanuatu
Region	Vanua Lava
Native speakers	2,000 (2012)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southern Oceanic Vanuatu Northern Vanuatu East Vanuatu Vurës; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Vurës; Mwesen;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	msn
Glottolog	vure1239[2]

Vurës and Mwesen (Mosina) are two dialects spoken in Vanua Lava Island in Vanuatu. Taken together, they form the main language of the island, with about 2000 speakers.^[1]

Notes

1 2 François (2012:88)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Vures". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

References

François, Alexandre (2012), "The dynamics of linguistic diversity: Egalitarian multilingualism and power imbalance among northern Vanuatu languages", International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 214: 85–110, doi:10.1515/ijsl-2012-0022 .
Malau, Catriona (2016), A grammar of Vurës, Vanuatu, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, ISBN 978-1-5015-0364-1.

External links

Vurës—English dictionary, by Catriona Malau.
Audio recordings in the Vurës language, in open access: Mwesen dialect, Vurës dialect, by A. François (source: Pangloss Collection of CNRS–LACITO).
Kpwet, the Trickster God: A story in Mwesen, presented in trilingual format (by A. François)

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[IJSL-1] 1 2 François (2012:88)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Vures". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.