Kiai language

Kiai
Fortsenal
Native to Vanuatu
Native speakers
450 (2001)[1]
Official status
Official language in
Vanuatu
Language codes
ISO 639-3 frt
Glottolog fort1240[2]

The Kiai language is a vernacular of a native people in the highlands of the central Espiritu Santo Island, Sanma Province, Republic of Vanuatu.

Name variants

Another name is Fortsenal. The speakers call their language na vara kiai. Fortsenal (Vorozenale) is one of the villages where the speakers live.

Notes

  1. Kiai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Fortsenal". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

References


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