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People on Vanuatu's Malekula Island speak more than 30 Indigenous languages. Here's why we must record them

  • Written by Julie Barbour, Senior Lecturer, Linguistics, University of Waikato
People on Vanuatu's Malekula Island speak more than 30 Indigenous languages. Here's why we must record themEric Lafforgue via Getty Images

Malekula, the second-largest island in the Vanuatu archipelago, has a linguistic connection to Aotearoa. All of its many languages are distantly related to te reo Māori and the island is the site of a long-term project to document them.

Vanuatu has been described as the world’s “densest linguistic...

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