Wailapa language
| Wailapa | |
|---|---|
| Ale | |
| Native to | Vanuatu |
| Region | Espiritu Santo |
Native speakers | (100 cited 1981)[1] |
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Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
wlr |
| Glottolog |
wail1242[2] |
Wailapa, or Ale, is an Oceanic language spoken on Espiritu Santo Island in Vanuatu. It is in a dialect chain between Akei and Penantsiro,[3] but these are not mutually intelligible.
References
- ↑ Wailapa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Wailapa". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Ethnologue identifies Penantsiro with the code for Piamatsina, but this would not seem to be credible.
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