Vangunu language

Vangunu language

Infobox Language
name=Vangunu
states=Solomon Islands
region=Vangunu Island
speakers=907 (1999 SIL)
familycolor=Austronesian
fam2=Malayo-Polynesian (MP)
fam3=Nuclear MP
fam4=Central-Eastern MP
fam5=Eastern MP
fam6=Oceanic
fam7=Western Oceanic
fam8=Meso-Melanesian
fam9=New Ireland
fam10=South New Ireland-Northwest Solomonic
fam11=New Georgia
fam12=East New Georgia
iso3=mpr

Vangunu is an Oceanic language spoken by about 900 people on Vangunu Island, Solomon Islands. Speakers of Vangunu also use the closely related Marovo.

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