Vera'a language
| Vera'a | |
|---|---|
| Vatrata | |
| Native to | Vanuatu |
| Region | Vanua Lava |
Native speakers | 500 (2012)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
vra |
| Glottolog |
vera1241[2] |
Vera’a (or Vatrata) is a language of Vanua Lava Island in Vanuatu.
Phonology
Vera’a has 7 phonemic vowels, which are all short monophthongs:[3]
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u |
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ |
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ |
| Open | a | |
References
- ↑ François (2012): 88).
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Vera'a". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ François (2005:445); François (2011:194).
Bibliography
- François, Alexandre (2005), "Unraveling the history of the vowels of seventeen northern Vanuatu languages", Oceanic Linguistics, 44 (2): 443–504, doi:10.1353/ol.2005.0034
- François, Alexandre (2011), "Social ecology and language history in the northern Vanuatu linkage: A tale of divergence and convergence", Journal of Historical Linguistics, 1 (2): 175–246, doi:10.1075/jhl.1.2.03fra
- François, Alexandre (2012), "The dynamics of linguistic diversity: Egalitarian multilingualism and power imbalance among northern Vanuatu languages", International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 214: 85–110, doi:10.1515/ijsl-2012-0022
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