Unua

E153878

Unua is an Oceanic language spoken by a small community in Vanuatu.

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Unua canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
natural language
continent Oceania
country Vanuatu
ethnicGroup Unua people
hasAlternativeName Onua (variant spelling, reported in some sources)
hasBasicVocabularySource Proto-Oceanic
hasDomain language
hasLinguisticTypology head-initial
prepositional language
hasMorphologyType predominantly analytic
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (reported for some Oceanic Malekula languages)
hasWordOrder SVO
isEndangered true
ISO639-3Code onu
isSpokenByMinority true
languageBranch Oceanic
languageFamily Austronesian
languageGroup Southern Oceanic
linked to: Western Oceanic
languageStatus vulnerable
languageSubfamily Malayo-Polynesian
languageSubgroup Central Vanuatu languages
linked to: Vanuatu languages
locatedIn South Pacific
numberOfSpeakers small community
region Malekula Island NERFINISHED
sharesFeaturesWith other Malekula languages
spokenInCountry Vanuatu
spokenOnIsland Malekula
linked to: Malakula
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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