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Preferred term

erkSouth Efate  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • The South Efate language is a Nuclear Southern Oceanic language of the Malayo-Polynesian language family, spoken on the island of Efate in central Vanuatu. , there are approximately 6,000 speakers who live in coastal villages from Pango to Eton. The language's grammar has been described by Nick Thieberger, who is working on a book of stories and . The field recordings have been archived with Paradisec.

Entry terms

  • Efate, South
  • South Efate language

ISO 639-3 code

  • erk

Notation

  • erk

In other languages

  • Éfaté du Sud

    French

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/erk

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