Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
There are over one hundred local languages spread over the archipelago (listed below), all of them belonging to the Austronesian family of languages.Vanuatu is the country with the highest density of languages per capita in the world: it currently shows an average of about 1,760 speakers for each indigenous language, and went through a historical low of 565; [1] only Papua New Guinea comes close.
North Vanuatu languages (3 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Languages of Vanuatu" The following 137 pages are in this category, out of 137 total.
The Malakula languages are a group of Central Vanuatu languages spoken on Malakula Island in central Vanuatu. Unlike some earlier classifications, linguist and Oceanic languages specialist John Lynch (2016) considered the Malakula languages to form a coherent group.
Bislama (English: / ˈ b ɪ s l ə m ɑː / BISS-lə-mah; [2] Bislama:; also known by its earlier French name, bichelamar [3]) is an English-based creole language. It is the national language of Vanuatu , and one of the three official languages of the country, the other ones being English and French.
Vanuatu is the country with the world's highest language density per capita, with 138 languages for a population of 0.3 million. These 138 indigenous languages are still used today by two-thirds of the country's population, mainly in rural areas. These are Oceanic languages, descended historically from the country's first Austronesian settlers.
In addition, 113 indigenous languages, all of which are Southern Oceanic languages except for three outlier Polynesian languages, are spoken in Vanuatu. [194] The density of languages per capita is the highest of any nation in the world, [195] with an average of only 2,000 speakers per language. All vernacular languages of Vanuatu (i.e ...
Top 10 most popular languages learned on Duolingo. Although there were some changes this year, Duolingo listed the top 10 languages studied in 2023 as: 1. English. 2. Spanish. 3. French. 4. German ...
It is the only language that can be understood and spoken by the majority of Vanuatu's population as a second language. In addition 113 indigenous languages are still actively spoken in Vanuatu. [1] The density of languages per capita is the highest of any nation in the world, with an average of 2,000 speakers per language.