Uripiv language

Uripiv
	Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin
Native to	Vanuatu
Region	Malakula
Native speakers	9,000 (2001) [1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southern Oceanic North Vanuatu Northeast–Banks Islands Malekula Coastal Uripiv; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	upv
Glottolog	urip1239 [2]

Last updated May 07, 2019

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%.

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References

↑ Uripiv at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Uripiv language

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