South Efate

E174993

South Efate is an Oceanic language spoken on Efate Island in Vanuatu, known for its role in the region’s rich Austronesian linguistic heritage.

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Label Occurrences
South Efate canonical 6

Statements (38)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
natural language
belongsTo Central Vanuatu subgroup of Oceanic
continent Oceania
country Vanuatu
glottologCode sout2854
glottologName South Efate self-link
hasAlternativeName South Efate language
hasDocumentation descriptive grammar by linguists working on Vanuatu languages
hasDomain vernacular communication
hasEndangermentStatus vulnerable
hasISO639-3Code erk
hasLanguageStatus minority language in Vanuatu
hasLinguisticHeritage Austronesian
hasMorphologyType moderately agglutinative
hasNumberOfSpeakers a few thousand speakers (approximate)
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
simple consonant inventory compared to many Austronesian languages
hasTypology predominantly SVO word order
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
isPartOf Vanuatu’s linguistic diversity
isSpokenInVillage southern Efate communities
languageFamily Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian
locatedInLanguageFamily Austronesian languages
Oceanic languages
partOf Southern Oceanic languages
region Vanuatu
surface form: Central Vanuatu
spokenBy indigenous communities of Efate Island
spokenIn Efate Island NERFINISHED
Vanuatu
spokenOn Efate
subfamily Vanuatu languages
surface form: Central Vanuatu languages

Oceanic
Western Oceanic
surface form: Southern Oceanic
usedAlongside Bislama
English
French

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Vanuatu languages includesLanguage South Efate
Paama neighboringLanguage South Efate
Nafe hasAlternativeName South Efate
South Efate glottologName South Efate self-link