Vurës language

Vurës
Native to	Vanuatu
Region	Vanua Lava
Native speakers	2,000 (2012)^[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southern Oceanic Vanuatu Northern Vanuatu East Vanuatu Vurës
Dialects	Vurës Mwesen
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`msn`
Glottolog	`vure1239`^[2]

Vurës and Mwesen (Mosina) are two dialects spoken in Vanua Lava Island in Vanuatu. Taken together, they form the main language of the island, with about 2000 speakers.^[1]

Notes

↑ 1.0 1.1 François (2012:88)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Vures". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

References

François, Alexandre (2012), "The dynamics of linguistic diversity: Egalitarian multilingualism and power imbalance among northern Vanuatu languages", International Journal of the Sociology of Language 214: 85–110, doi:10.1515/ijsl-2012-0022 .

External links

English-Vurës dictionary, by Catriona Malau.