Uripiv language
For Wala of the Solomon Islands, see Langalanga language.
| Uripiv | |
|---|---|
| Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin | |
| Native to | Vanuatu |
| Region | Malakula |
Native speakers | 9,000 (2001)[1] |
|
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
upv |
| Glottolog |
urip1239[2] |
Uripiv is a dialect of the language spoken on the north-east coast of Malakula. The language is referred to as Northeast Malakula, or Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin, and is spoken on the islands of Uripiv, Wala, Rano and Atchin and on the mainland opposite to these islands. Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin is spoken today by about 9,000 people. Literacy rate of its speakers in their own language is 10–30%.
Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin forms a dialect chain. The Uripiv dialect is the most southerly of these, and has 85% of its words in common with Atchin, the most northerly dialect.
The Uripiv dialect is one of the few documented languages that use the rare bilabial trill, a feature that is not found in the Atchin dialect.
References
- ↑ Uripiv at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.