• Source: South Vanuatu languages

The nine South Vanuatu languages form a family of the Southern Oceanic languages, spoken in Tafea Province (Tanna, Aneityum, Futuna, Erromango, and Aniwa) of Vanuatu.




Languages


Erromango family
Southern: Sie, Sorung†
Northern: Ifo (Utaha)†, Ura(See Erromanga language#Linguistic situation for a description)
Tanna family
Southern: Kwamera (South Tanna), Southwest Tanna
Northern: Lenakel (West Tanna), Whitesands (Weasisi, East Tanna), North Tanna
Aneityum
Aneityum (Anejom̃)




= François (2015)

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François (2015:18–21) lists the following names and locations for the 9 South Vanuatu languages.




Proto-South Vanuatu



Proto-South Vanuatu was reconstructed by John Lynch in 2001.
The language, compared to Proto-Oceanic, went through a series of vowel reductions, leading to the creation of a new vowel written as *ə, such as in *na-waiR "fresh water" resulting in Proto-South Vanuatu *nə-wai of the same meaning.
However, it also preserves some, but not all final consonants. For example, *tanum "to plant, bury" is reflected in Proto-South Vanuatu as *(a)-tenum "to bury", but *taŋis "to cry" is instead reflected as *(a)-taŋi.




= Vowels

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The vowels of Proto-South Vanuatu, according to Lynch, are:




= Consonants

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The consonants of Proto-South Vanuatu, according to Lynch, are:




References



François, Alexandre; Franjieh, Michael; Lacrampe, Sébastien; Schnell, Stefan (2015), "The exceptional linguistic density of Vanuatu" (PDF), in François, Alexandre; Lacrampe, Sébastien; Franjieh, Michael; Schnell, Stefan (eds.), The Languages of Vanuatu: Unity and Diversity, Studies in the Languages of Island Melanesia, Canberra: Asia Pacific Linguistics Open Access, pp. 1–21, ISBN 9781922185235.
Lynch, John. 2001. The linguistic history of southern Vanuatu. (Pacific Linguistics, 509.) Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

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