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  2. Languages of Vanuatu - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Port Vila - Wikipedia

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    Port Vila is home to many languages, reflecting the country's high linguistic diversity. The capital city's daily lingua franca is Bislama, but English and French are also widely spoken. Among Vanuatu's 100 indigenous languages, many are spoken in the capital, as people from rural areas come to live in the city, either temporarily or permanently.

  4. Bislama - Wikipedia

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    It is the national language of Vanuatu, and one of the three official languages of the country, the other ones being English and French. Bislama is the first language of many of the "Urban ni-Vanuatu " (citizens who live in Port Vila and Luganville ) and the second language of much of the rest of the country's residents.

  5. Vanuatu - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Category:Languages of Vanuatu - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Mwotlap language - Wikipedia

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    Mwotlap (pronounced [ŋ͡mʷɔtˈlap]; formerly known as Motlav) is an Oceanic language spoken by about 2,100 people in Vanuatu.The majority of speakers are found on the island of Motalava in the Banks Islands, [2] [3] with smaller communities in the islands of Ra (or Aya) and Vanua Lava, [4] as well as migrant groups in the two main cities of the country, Santo and Port Vila.

  8. Malakula languages - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Ni-Vanuatu - Wikipedia

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    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.