Tangoa language

Tangoa language

Infobox Language
name=Tangoa
region=Tangoa Island, Vanuatu
speakers=~800 (2001)
familycolor=Austronesian
fam1=Austronesian
fam2=Malayo-Polynesian
fam3=Central-Eastern
fam4=Eastern
fam5=Oceanic
fam6=Central-Eastern
fam7=Remote
fam8=North and Central Vanuatu
fam9=NE Vanuatu-Banks Islands
fam10=W Santo
iso2=map
iso3=tgp

Tangoa is an Oceanic language spoken on Tangoa Island, south of Espiritu Santo I. in Vanuatu.

Characteristics

Tangoa is one of the few languages of Vanuatu, and indeed of the world, possessing a set of linguolabial consonants.

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=tgp Ethnologue report for language code:tgp]


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