Social:Aveteian language
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Short description: Endangered Oceanic language of Vanuatu
Aveteian | |
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Dixon Reef | |
Pronunciation | [avəteián₂] |
Native to | Vanuatu |
Region | Malakula |
Native speakers | probably fewer than 50 (2007)[1] |
Austronesian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | dix |
Glottolog | dixo1238 [2] |
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
- ↑ Aveteian at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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. - ↑ Lynch & Crowley, 2001, Languages of Vanuatu: A New Survey and Bibliography. Australian National University.
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aveteian language.
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