Sakao | |
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  Sakao Location in Vanuatu | |
| Coordinates: 16°30′0″S167°48′59″E / 16.50000°S 167.81639°E | |
| Country |  Vanuatu |
| Province | Sanma Province |
| Population (2009) | |
| • Total | 14 [1] |
| Time zone | UTC+11 (VUT) |
Sakao, also known as Khoti, is an island in Vanuatu, located off the southeastern shore of Vanuatu's second-largest island, Malakula, in Malampa Province. [2]
The island is about 3 km wide and 0.8 km long. [ citation needed ].
Tafea is the southernmost of the six provinces of Vanuatu. The name is an acronym for the five main islands that make up the province: Tanna, Aneityum, Futuna, Erromango and Aniwa.
Tolomako is a language of the Oceanic subgroup of Austronesian languages. It is spoken on Santo island in Vanuatu.
Malakula Island, also spelled Malekula, is the second-largest island in the nation of Vanuatu, formerly the New Hebrides, in Melanesia, a region of the Pacific Ocean.
Paama is a small island in Malampa Province, Vanuatu.
The Southern Oceanic languages are a linkage of Oceanic languages spoken in Vanuatu and New Caledonia. It was proposed by John Lynch in 1995 and supported by later studies. It appears to be a linkage rather than a language family with a clearly defined internal nested structure.
Sakao is an Oceanic language spoken on the northeast horn of Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu.
Tegua is an island in Vanuatu's Torres Islands chain, located in Torba Province.
Jacques Guy is a French linguist, living in Australia since 1968. He started undergraduate studies at the École des Langues Orientales in Paris, France, focusing on Chinese, Japanese and Tahitian. He wrote his Ph.D. thesis, under the auspices of the Australian National University, on Sakao, a language of Espiritu Santo.
Sakao Island may refer to one of the two following islands in the archipelago of Vanuatu:
Sakao, locally known as Lathi or Laðhi, is an uninhabited island in Vanuatu. It is located off the northeastern shore of Vanuatu's largest island Espiritu Santo in Sanma Province, and off the southeastern shore of Vanuatu's second-largest island, Malakula. The island has given its name to the Sakao language, spoken in the nearby area of Port-Olry.
Linua is an island in the Torres Islands archipelago in Torba Province of Vanuatu in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
Buninga Island is an inhabited island in Shefa Province of Vanuatu in the Pacific Ocean. The island is a part of Shepherd Islands archipelago.
Tongariki Island is an inhabited island in Shefa Province of Vanuatu in the Pacific Ocean. The island is a part of Shepherd Islands archipelago.
Lamen Island is an inhabited island in Shefa Province of Vanuatu in the Pacific Ocean. The island is a part of Shepherd Islands archipelago.
Uluveo Island is a small, inhabited island in Malampa Province of Vanuatu in the Pacific Ocean. Uluveo is a part of the Maskelyne Islands archipelago.
Lataro is an uninhabited island in Sanma Province of Vanuatu in the Pacific Ocean.
Vete Manung, also Vetemanu, formerly Goat Island, Île Rocher, Île de la Chèvre or La Chèvre, is a small uninhabited island in Tafea Province of Vanuatu in the Pacific Ocean. Vete Manung Island is located 5.6 km northeast of Pointe Bodiroua on the north-east coast of Erromango Island.
Dany Island is a privately-owned tropical island located in the Sanma Province of Vanuatu, in the Pacific Ocean. The island has been developed into a tourist resort.
The Espiritu Santo languages are a group of North Vanuatu languages spoken on Espiritu Santo Island in northern Vanuatu. Tryon (2010) considers the Espiritu Santo languages to be a coherent group.
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