Vao language

Vao
Vao
Region	Vao Island and northern Malakula, Vanuatu
Native speakers	1,900 (2001)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southern Oceanic North-Central Vanuatu Central Vanuatu Malakula Malakula Interior Vao; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	vao
Glottolog	vaoo1237
	Vao is not endangered according to the classification system of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Vao is an Austronesian language of the Oceanic branch spoken by about 1,900 people on Vao Island and on the nearby shores of Malakula Island, Vanuatu.^[2]

Characteristics

Vao is one of the few languages of the world that possesses linguolabial consonants.^[3]^{[example needed]}

^ Vao at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Ethnologue report for Vao
^ Ladefoged, Peter; Maddieson, Ian. The sounds of the world's languages. Blackwell Publishers. pp. 18–19. ISBN 9780631198147.

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