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Northeast Malakula, or Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin, is a dialect chain 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%.

Northeast Malakula
Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin
Native toVanuatu
RegionMalakula
Native speakers
9,000 (2001)[1]
Language family
Austronesian
  • Malayo-Polynesian
    • Oceanic
      • Southern Oceanic
        • Central Vanuatu
          • Malakula
            • Eastern
              • Northeast Malakula
Language codes
ISO 639-3upv
Glottologurip1239

Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin forms a dialect chain. The Uripiv dialect is the most southerly of these and has 85% of its words in common with Atchin, the most northerly dialect. Uripiv is spoken on the north-east coast of Malakula.

The Uripiv dialect is one of the few documented languages that use the rare bilabial trill, a feature that is not found in the Atchin dialect.


References


  1. Northeast Malakula at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

Further reading




На других языках


- [en] Northeast Malakula language

[fr] Uripiv-wala-rano-atchin

L’uripiv-wala-rano-atchin est une langue océanienne parlée au Vanuatu par environ 9 000 locuteurs dans le nord-est de Malekula ainsi que dans les petites îles proches (Uripiv, Wala, Rano, Atchin). Il s’agit d’une chaîne de trois dialectes inter-compréhensibles, du sud au nord : uripiv, wala-rano et atchin (nale). Le lexique est similaire à 85 % aux deux extrémités de la chaîne. C’est une des très rares langues à employer la consonne roulée bilabiale voisée.



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