Wuvulu-Aua

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A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3
wuv
Alternate Names
Aua-Viwulu, Viwulu-Aua
Autonym
Wuvulu
User Population

1,600 (Hafford 2014).

Location

Western Manus province: Aua, Durour, Maty, and Wuvulu islands.

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Language Status

5 (Developing).

Classification
Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Admiralty Islands, Western
Dialects

Aua, Onne (Wuvulu), Auna (Wuvulu). All 3 dialects are mutually intelligible (Hafford 2005).

Typology

SVO; Noun Classes: 3 (Personal, Local, Common); Agglutinating morphology; Verbal affixation marks mood, aspect, intensification, direction, action, repetition, completion, transitivity, and object agreement; Aspects: 4 (Perfective, Perfective Negation, Simultaneous, Habitual); Consonants: 10, Vowels: 10; (Hafford 2014).

Language Use

All domains except in interactions with outsiders. Used by all. All also use Tok Pisin [tpi] (Hafford 2014). Some also use English [eng] (Hafford 2014).

Language Development

Literacy rate in L1: 75%. Grammar. NT: 2005.

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Wuvulu-Aua
Writing

Latin script [Latn].

Other Comments

Christian.