Northeast Malakula language
Northeast Malakula, or Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin, is a dialect chain spoken on the islands of Uripiv, Wala, Rano, and Atchin and on the mainland opposite to these islands. Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin is spoken today by about 9,000 people. Literacy rate of its speakers in their own language is 10–30%.
For Wala of the Solomon Islands, see Langalanga language.
| Northeast Malakula | |
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| Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin | |
| Native to | Vanuatu |
| Region | Malakula |
Native speakers | 9,000 (2001)[1] |
Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | upv |
| Glottolog | urip1239 |
Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin forms a dialect chain. The Uripiv dialect is the most southerly of these and has 85% of its words in common with Atchin, the most northerly dialect. Uripiv is spoken on the north-east coast of Malakula.
The Uripiv dialect is one of the few documented languages that use the rare bilabial trill, a feature that is not found in the Atchin dialect.
References
- Northeast Malakula at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Further reading
- Duhamel, Marie (2015) Ethnolinguistic vitality of the language of Atchin, central Vanuatu: A survey of the language's status, institutional support and demography. Fourth International Workshop on the Sociolinguistics of Language Endangerment. Payap University.
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