Mavea
Mafea; Mav̋ea;
Austronesian; Malayo-Polynesian; Oceanic; Northern Vanuatu
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Most of the community speaks Bislama
"Most of the grammatical descriptions derive from a corpus of texts of various genres (conversations, traditional stories, personal histories, etc.) gathered during the author’s fieldwork, conducted for eleven months between 2005 and 2007."
2011
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Vanuatu
-15.384, 167.230
Mavea Island
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Apathetic with regard to language loss
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Bislama
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There are no schools where Mavea is the the language of instruction.
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2010
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Mean age of children is 8.
2007
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Espiritu Santo Island, Vanuatu
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East Espiritu Santo Island, on Mafea and Ais Islands off the southeastern coast of Santo Island
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East Espiritu Santo Island, on Mafea and Ais Islands off the southeastern coast of Santo Island
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pressure from the closely related larger Shark Bay language
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2005
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Mafea Island, Vanuatu
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northern Vanuatu
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Data for the number of native speakers comes from Lynch and Crowley (2001).
2009
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2015
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Vanuatu
-15.383995,167.229435; -15.431657,167.252781;
Espiritu Santo, Mavea
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- Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
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- World Oral Literature Project"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.http://www.oralliterature.org
- "Discovering Mafea: texts, grammar, and lexicon" HRELP AbstractGuérin, Valérie. 2005. ""Discovering Mafea: Texts, Grammar, and Lexicon" HRELP Abstract." Online: http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=70.http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=70
- A Grammar of Mavea: An Oceanic Language of VanuatuValerie Guerin. 2011. "A Grammar of Mavea: An Oceanic Language of Vanuatu." In Oceanic Linguistics, 39: 424. University of Hawai'i Press. Online: http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-8629-9780824836399.aspx.http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-8629-9780824836399.aspx
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