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

Motlav

A language of Vanuatu

ISO 639-3mlv

Population  2,200 (Lynch and Crowley 2001).
Region  Banks Group, Mota Lava (Saddle) Island.
Language map  Vanuatu
Alternate names   Motalava, Mwotlap
Dialects  Volow (Valuva, Valuwa, Valuga).
Classification  Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, North and Central Vanuatu, Northeast Vanuatu-Banks Islands, East Vanuatu
Language development  Bible portions: 2005.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Vernacular Publications

Alfabet long Bislama. 2002.

Nakaka te letes. 2002.