Uripiv language
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Uripiv, or more precisely Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin, is a language spoken on Vanuatu
. Uripiv is spoken today by about 9,000 people. Literacy rate of Uripiv speakers in their own language is about 10 - 30%.
Uripiv proper forms a dialect chain with other dialects, namely Wala-Rano and Atchin. Uripiv dialect is the most northerly of these, and has 85% of its words in common with Atchin, at the opposite (southern) end of the chain.
Uripiv is one of the few well-documented languages that use the rare bilabial trill
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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...
. Uripiv is spoken today by about 9,000 people. Literacy rate of Uripiv speakers in their own language is about 10 - 30%.
Uripiv proper forms a dialect chain with other dialects, namely Wala-Rano and Atchin. Uripiv dialect is the most northerly of these, and has 85% of its words in common with Atchin, at the opposite (southern) end of the chain.
Uripiv is one of the few well-documented languages that use the rare bilabial trill
Bilabial trill
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