Shark Bay language
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The Shark Bay language is one of the East Santo languages group of languages. It is spoken on Espiritu Santo
in Vanuatu
. It has about 450 speakers. It is close to Lorediakarkar
.
Espiritu Santo
Espiritu Santo is the largest island in the nation of Vanuatu, with an area of . It belongs to the archipelago of the New Hebrides in the Pacific region of Melanesia. It is in the Sanma Province of Vanuatu....
in Vanuatu
Vanuatu
Vanuatu , officially the Republic of Vanuatu , is an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is some east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, west of Fiji, and southeast of the Solomon Islands, near New Guinea.Vanuatu was...
. It has about 450 speakers. It is close to Lorediakarkar
Lorediakarkar language
Lorediakarkar is a language of the East Santo languages a group of languages in the Austronesian family of Languages. It is spoken by about 340 people out of an ethnic population of 850 on Espiritu Santo Island in Vanuatu. It is close to the Shark Bay language.-References:Moseley, Christopher and...
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