Unua

E153878

Unua is an Oceanic language spoken by a small community in Vanuatu.

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Unua canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
natural language
continent Oceania
country Vanuatu
ethnicGroup Unua people
hasAlternativeName Onua (variant spelling, reported in some sources)
hasBasicVocabularySource Proto-Oceanic language
surface form: Proto-Oceanic
hasDomain language
hasLinguisticTypology head-initial
prepositional language
hasMorphologyType predominantly analytic
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (reported for some Oceanic Malekula languages)
hasWordOrder SVO
isEndangered true
ISO639-3Code onu
isSpokenByMinority true
languageBranch Oceanic
languageFamily Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian
languageGroup Western Oceanic
surface form: Southern Oceanic
languageStatus vulnerable
languageSubfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages
surface form: Malayo-Polynesian
languageSubgroup Vanuatu languages
surface form: Central Vanuatu languages
locatedIn South Pacific
numberOfSpeakers small community
region Malekula Island NERFINISHED
sharesFeaturesWith other Malekula languages
spokenInCountry Vanuatu
spokenOnIsland Malakula
surface form: Malekula
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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