North Efate, also known as Nakanamanga or Nguna, is an Oceanic language spoken on the northern area of Efate in Vanuatu, as well as on a number of islands off the northern coast – including Nguna, and parts of Tongoa, Emae and Epi.
The population of speakers is recorded to be 9,500.[2] This makes Nakanamanga one of the largest languages of Vanuatu, an archipelago known for having the world's highest linguistic density.[3]
Phonology
The consonant and vowels sounds of North Efate (Nguna).[4]
Subdialects of North Efate include:[5]
Buninga
Emau
Livara
Nguna
Paunangis
Sesake
Typology follows Subject Object Verb order as is observed in Nguna[2]
References
Ray, Sidney H. (1887). "Sketch of Nguna Grammar". The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 16. Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland: 409–418. doi:10.2307/2841882. JSTOR 2841882.
Schütz, Albert J. (1969). "Nguna Grammar". Oceanic Linguistics Special Publications.
Notes
^North Efate at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ a b"Efate, North". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-11-13.
^François, Alexandre; Franjieh, Michael; Lacrampe, Sébastien; Schnell, Stefan (2015), "The exceptional linguistic density of Vanuatu", in François, Alexandre; Lacrampe, Sébastien; Franjieh, Michael; Schnell, Stefan (eds.), The Languages of Vanuatu: Unity and Diversity, Studies in the Languages of Island Melanesia, Canberra: Asia Pacific Linguistics Open Access, pp. 1–21, ISBN 9781922185235
^Schütz, Albert J. (1969). Nguna Grammar. Oceanic Linguistics Special Publications.
^"Glottolog 3.3 - North Efate". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2018-11-13.