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        <tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Witu,Vitu


<b>Description:</b>

Vitu (also spelled Witu) or Muduapa is an Oceanic language spoken by about 7,000 people on the islands northwest of the coast of West New Britain in Papua New Guinea.
Vitu is so closely related to the neighbouring Bali language that the two are sometimes considered to be a single language, called Bali-Vitu.
Vitu and Bali appear to be members of a Meso-Melanesian cluster of the Oceanic languages.
/t/ is realized as [tʃ] before /i/.
/s/ occurs only in loanwords from Tok Pisin, such as sikul "school".
No consonant clusters or final consonants are allowed in native Vitu words: all syllables have a CV or V structure. Loanwords, however, may have different structures.
Vitu is written in the Latin alphabet. Only between 15% and 25% of speakers of Vitu are literate in the language, but many more are literate in Tok Pisin, the national language of Papua New Guinea.<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=6898540 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
        <tr><td><h2>Location of Muduapa Language Speakers</h2>
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<h2>Overview</h2>

<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/papua_new_guinea Papua New Guinea]</td></tr>

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<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/oceania Oceania] 
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>wiv</td></tr>

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      <tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
[[All Languages]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Austronesian Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Malayo-Polynesian Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Central-Eastern Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Oceanic Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Western Oceanic Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Meso Melanesian Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Bali-Vitu Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>[[Muduapa Language]]</b>

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