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

Merlav

A language of Vanuatu

ISO 639-3mrm

Population  1,550 (Lynch and Crowley 2001).
Region  Banks Group, Mere Lava and Merig Islands.
Language map  Vanuatu
Alternate names   Merelava, Merlav-Merig
Dialects  Mwerig (Merig), West Mwerelawa, Matliwag.
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