Tangoa language
Tangoa, or Leon Tatagoa, is an Oceanic language spoken on Tangoa Island, south of Espiritu Santo Island in Vanuatu. The community was an early settlement for Christian missionaries, leading to its use as a linguafranca in the area.[3]
| Tangoa | |
|---|---|
| Mara Tatagoa | |
| Region | Tangoa Island, Vanuatu |
Native speakers | 800 (2001)[1] |
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tgp |
| Glottolog | tang1347[2] |
Characteristics
Tangoa is one of the few languages of Vanuatu, and indeed of the world, possessing a set of linguolabial consonants.
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gollark: I think it's just the sugar molecules on their own and presumably very concentrated.
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gollark: It's entirely possible to be consistent here. I would probably not like someone who only talked about their drug use whatever that was, but it's hard to say as I've never actually interacted with any.
gollark: Saying "drugs are cringe" includes that.
References
- Tangoa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Movono". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Vari-Bogiri, Hannah (2008). "A Sociolinguistic Survey of Araki: A Dying Language of Vanuatu". Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 26 (1). doi:10.1080/14790710508668398.
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