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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.
The national language of the Republic of Vanuatu is Bislama. The official languages are Bislama, English, and French. The principal languages of education are English and French. The use of English or French as the formal language is split along political lines. [192] Bislama is a creole spoken natively in urban areas.
Afrikaans; العربية; Aragonés; Asturianu; تۆرکجه; Беларуская; Bislama; Brezhoneg; Čeština; Dansk; Davvisámegiella; Eesti; Ελληνικά ...
Language World Africa Americas Asia Europe Oceania Countries English: 58 23 14 4 3 14 United Kingdom, United States, [k] Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, India, South Africa, Nigeria (See the full list) [78] French: 27 19 2 – 5 1 France, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, Madagascar, Monaco, Haiti, Vanuatu (See the full list) Arabic: 23 ...
Navut is not endangered according to the classification system of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger Navut (or Sinia ) is an Oceanic language spoken in central Espiritu Santo Island in Vanuatu .
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 ...
United Kingdom (de facto; individual countries in the UK have statutorily defined official languages, but the UK as a whole does not) United States (de facto; the United States has no administratively mandated official language) Vanuatu (with Bislama and French) [20] Zambia
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Alovas is a Malakula language of Vanuatu. References ... The Languages of Vanuatu: Unity and Diversity (PDF ...