Mwotlap

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Mwotlap
Pronunciation:	ŋ͡mʷɔtˈlap
Spoken in:	Vanuatu
Region:	Mota Lava island, Banks Islands
Total speakers:	1800
Language family:	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central Eastern Eastern Oceanic Central-Eastern Remote Oceanic North and Central Northeast East Vanuatu Mwotlap
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	`map`
ISO 639-3:	`mlv`
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Mwotlap [ŋ͡mʷɔtˈlap] (formerly known as Motlav) is an Oceanic language spoken by about 1,800 people, on the island of Mota Lava (or Motalava), in the Banks Islands, in the northern part of Vanuatu.

Mwotlap belongs to the East Vanuatu languages, a branch of the Austronesian languages family.

Mwotlap was first described in 2001, by the linguist Alexandre François.

[edit] References

François, Alexandre. 2003. La sémantique du prédicat en mwotlap (Vanuatu). Collection Linguistique de la Société de Linguistique de Paris. Leuven-Paris: Peeters. 408 pp. ISBN 90-429-1271-5. [Publisher's page].
François, Alexandre. Contraintes de structures et liberté dans l'organisation du discours. Une description du mwotlap, langue océanienne du Vanuatu. Thèse de Doctorat en Linguistique, Université Paris-IV Sorbonne. 1078 pp.