Vao language
Vao is an Austronesian language of the Oceanic branch spoken by about 1,900 people on Vao Island and on the nearby shores of Malakula Island, Vanuatu.[3]
| Vao | |
|---|---|
| Region | Vao Island and northern Malakula, Vanuatu |
Native speakers | 1,900 (2001)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | vao |
| Glottolog | vaoo1237[2] |
Characteristics
Vao is one of the few languages of the world that possesses linguolabial consonants [4].
gollark: Ugh, go project yourself onto arbitrary hyperplanes, pyrobot.
gollark: I think you're confusing a bunch of things right now. Or possibly just two things, many worlds and extra spatial dimensions.
gollark: "We"?
gollark: ???
gollark: Things which extend into those instead of just having a constant fixed position in said new spatial dimension are also not going to somehow stop being subject to time, unless the laws of physics privilege it somehow, which would be really weird.
References
- Vao at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Vao". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Ethnologue report for Vao
- Ladefoged, Peter; Maddieson, Ian. The sounds of the world's languages. Blackwell Publishers. pp. 18–19. ISBN 9780631198147.
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