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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Pacific > Vanuatu > Aneityum

Aneityum

A language of Vanuatu

ISO 639-3aty

Population  900 (Lynch and Crowley 2001).
Region  Aneityum Island.
Language map  Vanuatu
Alternate names   Aneiteum, Aneiteumese, Anejom
Classification  Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, South Vanuatu, Aneityum
Language development  Literacy rate in L1: 30%–60%. Literacy rate in L2: 50%–75%. Bible: 1879.
Writing system  Latin script.
Comments  Some simplification of subject-marking system occurs.