View source for Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin Language (upv)


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        <tr><td><b>Description:</b>

Uripiv is a language spoken on Vanuatu. Uripiv is spoken today by about 6,000 people. Literacy rate of Uripiv speakers in their own language is about 10 - 30%.
The language forms a dialect chain with other nearby languages, namely Wala-Rano and Atchin. Uripiv is the most northerly of these languages. Despite the dialect chain, Uripiv still has 85% of its words in common with Atchin, at the opposite (southern) end.
Uripiv is one of the few well-documented languages that use the rare bilabial trill.<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=627684 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
        <tr><td><h2>Location of Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin Language Speakers</h2>
http://llmap.org/languages/upv/static_map.png?width=400&height=300&kilroywashere=.png
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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>

<tr><td><b>Spoken In: </b></td><td>

<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>upv</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;[[Central-Eastern Oceanic Group]]

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

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[North and Central Vanuatu Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Northeast Vanuatu-Banks Islands Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Malekula Coastal Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>[[Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin Language]]</b>

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