Social:Aveteian language

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Short description: Endangered Oceanic language of Vanuatu
Aveteian
Dixon Reef
Pronunciation[avəteián₂]
Native toVanuatu
RegionMalakula
Native speakers
probably fewer than 50 (2007)[1]
Austronesian
  • Malayo-Polynesian
    • Oceanic
      • Southern Oceanic
        • North-Central Vanuatu
          • Central Vanuatu
            • Malakula
              • Malakula Interior
                • Aveteian
Language codes
ISO 639-3dix
Glottologdixo1238[2]
Lang Status 20-CR.svg
Aveteian is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Aveteian (Dixon Reef) is a possibly extinct language of Vanuatu, presumably one of the Malekula Interior languages.[3] In the early twentieth century it was spoken by a few families living to the north of Ninde.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Aveteian at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Dixon Reef". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/dixo1238. 
  3. ↑ See p.107 of:
    Blust, Robert. 2013. The Austronesian Languages. (Rev. ed.) Asia-Pacific Linguistics Open Access monographs, A-PL 008. Canberra, ACT: Asia-Pacific Linguistics.
  4. ↑ Lynch & Crowley, 2001, Languages of Vanuatu: A New Survey and Bibliography. Australian National University.



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