Southern Vanuatu linguistic area

E606598

Sprachbund linguistic area

The Southern Vanuatu linguistic area is a region in the southern part of Vanuatu characterized by a group of closely related Oceanic languages that share common structural and lexical features due to long-term contact.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Central Vanuatu linguistic area	1
South Vanuatu languages	1
Southern Vanuatu linguistic area canonical	1

Statements (41)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Sprachbund ⓘ linguistic area ⓘ
characterizedBy	long-term language contact ⓘ shared lexical features ⓘ shared structural features ⓘ
country	Vanuatu NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasBoundaryType	areal rather than strictly genealogical boundaries ⓘ
hasLanguage	Anejom̃ language NERFINISHED ⓘ Aniwa language NERFINISHED ⓘ Erromangan language NERFINISHED ⓘ Futuna-Aniwa language NERFINISHED ⓘ South Vanuatu languages ⓘ Tanna languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasLanguageFamily	Oceanic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasLanguageSubgroup	Central Vanuatu languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern Oceanic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasPopulationContext	spoken by small island communities ⓘ
hasProperty	areal diffusion of grammatical features ⓘ areal diffusion of vocabulary ⓘ close genealogical relatedness of member languages ⓘ contact-induced convergence ⓘ high degree of mutual influence among languages ⓘ
hasResearchTopic	areal vs genealogical features ⓘ lexical borrowing among neighboring languages ⓘ shared morphosyntactic patterns ⓘ shared phonological innovations ⓘ
hasSociolinguisticProperty	intensive inter-island interaction ⓘ multilingualism among speakers ⓘ
hasTemporalProperty	formed through long-term historical contact ⓘ
influencedBy	Austronesian migration history NERFINISHED ⓘ
influences	classification of Southern Oceanic languages ⓘ
locatedIn	Melanesia ⓘ South Pacific Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ southern Vanuatu ⓘ
partOf	Vanuatu archipelago NERFINISHED ⓘ
relevantTo	reconstruction of Proto-South Vanuatu ⓘ study of grammaticalization in Oceanic languages ⓘ study of language contact ⓘ
studiedInField	Austronesian linguistics ⓘ areal linguistics ⓘ linguistic typology ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

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

Kwamera → isPartOf → Southern Vanuatu linguistic area ⓘ

Southern Oceanic languages → hasSubgroup → Southern Vanuatu linguistic area ⓘ

this entity surface form: South Vanuatu languages

North Efate → partOfLinguisticArea → Southern Vanuatu linguistic area ⓘ

this entity surface form: Central Vanuatu linguistic area