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

Vao

A language of Vanuatu

ISO 639-3vao

Population  1,900 (Lynch and Crowley 2001).
Region  Vao Island, north Malekula.
Language map  Vanuatu, Enlarged Area
Dialects  Fooa.
Classification  Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, North and Central Vanuatu, Northeast Vanuatu-Banks Islands, Malekula Coastal
Comments  Agriculturalists: yams, banana, taro, pineapple, cabbage, coconut, breadfruit; fishermen; animal husbandry: pigs.