Ethnologue

Vehes

ISO 639-3

Alternate Names

Buasi, Vehees

Population

70 (Wurm 2000).

Location

Morobe province: near the coast between Lae and Salamaua. 1 village.

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Language Status

7 (Shifting).

Classification

Dialects

None known. Lexical similarity: 60% with Mapos Buang [bzh] (most similar).

Language Use

Not endangered (2000 D. Tryon); endangered (2000 S. Wurm). Under pressure from Buang Mapos [bzh], Buang Mangga [mmo] and Tok Pisin [tpi] (Wurm 2007).

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