Tags: Language.

Ura is a moribund language of the island Erromango in Vanuatu. It was thought to be extinct after massive depopulation of the island in the nineteenth century until Terry Crowley discovered a handful of elderly speakers in the 1990s.

ISO 639-3 code
uur
family
Malayo-Polynesian languages, Vanuatu, Oceanic languages, Southern Oceanic languages
spoken in
Erromango

Loading...

This page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "Ura language (Vanuatu)"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.