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<tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Marina,Tolomako-jereviu,Big Bay

<b>Description:</b>

Tolomako is a language of the Oceanic subgroup of Austronesian languages. It is spoken on Santo island in Vanuatu. It distinguishes four numbers for its personal pronouns: singular, dual, trial, plural. Its verbs have no tense or aspect marking, but two moods, realis and irrealis. Substantives and numerals also have the same two moods. E.g.
Someone is missing

There is nobody.

Tolomako is characterized by having dentals where the mother language had labials before front vowels. It shares this feature with Sakao, but not with its very close dialect Tsureviu. Thus:

When labials do occur preceding front vowels they seem to be reflexes of older labiovelars:

Compare with Fijian ŋata "snake" (spelt gata).
It has been speculated that Tolomako is a very simplified daughter-language or pidgin of the neighboring language Sakao. However, Tolomako is more likely a sister language of Sakao, not a pidgin. It cannot be phonologically derived from Sakao, whereas Sakao can be from Tolomako to some extent. Comparing Tolomako with its close dialect of Tsureviu allows to reconstruct an earlier state, from which most of Sakao can be regularly derived. This earlier state is very close to<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=1618262 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
<tr><td><h2>Location of Tolomako Language Speakers</h2>
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<tr><td><h2>Rosetta Document Collection</h2>
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<tr><td>Table Of Contents:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_tlm_Contents-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_tlm_Contents-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
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<h2>Overview</h2>

<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/vanuatu Vanuatu]</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>tlm</td></tr>

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<tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
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  [[Austronesian Group]]

    [[Malayo-Polynesian Group]]

      [[Central-Eastern Group]]

        [[Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Group]]

          [[Oceanic Group]]

            [[Central-Eastern Oceanic Group]]

              [[Remote Oceanic Group]]

                [[North and Central Vanuatu Group]]

                  [[Northeast Vanuatu-Banks Islands Group]]

                    [[West Santo Group]]

                      <b>[[Tolomako Language]]</b>

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