Vao

E603844

Vao is an Oceanic language spoken in northern Vanuatu, primarily on Vao Island off the coast of Malakula.

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Label Occurrences
Vao canonical 2

Statements (35)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
natural language
belongsTo Malakula languages area
continent Oceania
country Vanuatu NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Vao (Vanuatu) NERFINISHED
Vao language NERFINISHED
hasDomain local community life on Vao Island
hasISO639-3Code vao
hasLinguisticTypology SVO word order (subject–verb–object)
prepositional language
hasNeighboringLanguage Atchin NERFINISHED
Naman NERFINISHED
Uripiv NERFINISHED
V’ënen Taut NERFINISHED
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
prenasalized stops
hasStatus local language of Vao Island
isEndangered true
isMinorityLanguageIn Vanuatu NERFINISHED
isSpokenBy Vao people NERFINISHED
isUsedFor everyday communication
oral tradition
languageBranch Southern Oceanic languages NERFINISHED
languageFamily Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian
languageSubfamily Oceanic NERFINISHED
region northern Vanuatu
spokenIn Malakula region NERFINISHED
Vanuatu NERFINISHED
Vao Island NERFINISHED
northern Vanuatu
spokenOffCoastOf Malakula NERFINISHED
spokenOn Vao Island NERFINISHED
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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