Dorig language

Dorig
Spoken in	Vanuatu
Region	Gaua
Native speakers	300  (date missing)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southern Oceanic Vanuatu Northern Vanuatu East Vanuatu Dorig
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wwo

Dorig (sometimes called Wetamut) is an Oceanic language spoken on Gaua island in Vanuatu.

Its 300 speakers live mostly in the village of Dorig (IPA: [ⁿdʊˈriɰ]), on the south coast of Gaua. Smaller speaker communities can be found in the villages of Qteon (east coast) and Qtevut (west coast).

Dorig's immediate neighbours are Koro and Mwerlap.^[1]

Phonology

Dorig has 8 phonemic vowels. These include 7 short monophthongs /i ɪ ɛ a ɔ ʊ u/ and one long vowel /aː/.^[2]

References

1. ^ List of Banks islands languages.
2. ^ François (2005:445)

Bibliography

• François, Alexandre (2005), "Unraveling the history of the vowels of seventeen northern Vanuatu languages", Oceanic Linguistics 44 (2): 443–504, http://alex.francois.free.fr/data/AlexFrancois_VowelsNorthernVanuatu_OL44-2.pdf 

External links

• Linguistic map of north Vanuatu, showing range of Dorig on Gaua.
• A story in Dorig, with audio recording and translation.