East Vanuatu | |
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Geographic distribution |
East Vanuatu |
Linguistic classification |
Austronesian
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Glottolog | nort3195 (partial match) |
East Vanuatu is a group of languages spoken in the north-eastern areas of the Vanuatu archipelago. They form a branch of the Southern Oceanic languages .
The languages included in the East Vanuatu group are, from north to south:
Phonological, grammatical and lexical data on the 17 languages of the Torres and Banks Is can be found in François (2005, 2007, 2011); François (2012) is a sociolinguistic study of the area.