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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Pacific > Vanuatu > Efate, South

Efate, South

A language of Vanuatu

ISO 639-3erk

Population  6,000 (Lynch and Crowley 2001). Population includes Eton [etn].
Region  Efate Island.
Language map  Vanuatu
Alternate names   Erakor, Fate, Southern Efate
Classification  Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, North and Central Vanuatu, Northeast Vanuatu-Banks Islands, Central Vanuatu
Language development  Literacy rate in L1: 10%–30%. Literacy rate in L2: 50%–75%. NT: 1889–1930.