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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.
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.
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.
Raga (also known as Hano) is the language of northern Pentecost Island in Vanuatu. Like all Vanuatu languages, Raga belongs to the Oceanic subgroup of the Austronesian languages family. In old sources the language is sometimes referred to by the names of villages in which it is spoken, such as Bwatvenua (Qatvenua), Lamalanga, Vunmarama and Loltong.
Clark (2009) provides the following classification of the Central Vanuatu languages, divided into geographic areas. [1] Outlier (aberrant) languages identified by Clark (2009) are in italics . Clark's Central Vanuatu branch is wider in scope, [ clarification needed ] including not only the Shepherd–Efate languages, but also the Malakula and ...
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.
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.
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.