Vao language

Vao
Region Vao Island and northern Malakula, Vanuatu
Native speakers
 1,900  (2001)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 vao
Glottolog vaoo1237[2]

Vao is an Austronesian language of the Oceanic branch spoken by about 1,900 people on Vao Island and on the nearby shores of Malakula Island, Vanuatu.[3]

Characteristics

Vao is one of the few languages of the world, possessing linguolabial consonants.

References

  1. ↑ Vao at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Vao". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ Ethnologue report for Vao