Mwotlap
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| Mwotlap | ||
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| Pronunciation: | IPA: ŋ͡mʷɔtˈlap | |
| Spoken in: | Vanuatu | |
| Region: | Mota Lava island, Banks Islands | |
| Total speakers: | 1800 | |
| Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central Eastern Eastern Oceanic Central-Eastern Remote Oceanic North and Central Northeast East Vanuatu Mwotlap |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | map | |
| ISO 639-3: | mlv | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Mwotlap [ŋ͡mʷɔtˈlap] (formerly known as Motlav) is an Oceanic language spoken by about 1,800 people, on the island of Mota Lava (or Motalava), in the Banks Islands, in the northern part of Vanuatu.
Mwotlap belongs to the East Vanuatu languages, a branch of the Austronesian languages family.
Mwotlap was first described in 2001, by the linguist Alexandre François.
[edit] References
- François, Alexandre. 2003. La sémantique du prédicat en mwotlap (Vanuatu). Collection Linguistique de la Société de Linguistique de Paris. Leuven-Paris: Peeters. 408 pp. ISBN 90-429-1271-5. [Publisher's page].
[edit] External links
- Alexandre François's site, including introduction to Mwotlap and Motalava culture, photos, maps, songs, a myth, and a story
- Ethnologue page
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