East Uvean
[também conhecido como 'Uvea, Faka 'Uvea]Classificação: Austronesian
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- DOMÍNIOS DE USO
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- TENDÊNCIAS DOS FALANTES
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- TRANSMISSÃO
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- MAIS INFORMAÇÕES SOBRE A VITALIDADE
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"In 2008, of speakers over age 14 living on Wallis Islands, 86.1% reported speaking primarily East Uvean in the home, while 12.1% reported speaking primarily French in the home. French is the official language of administration, government, and education, and the only (or dominant) language of contact with neighboring communities in Melanesian New Caledonia, French Polynesia and parts of Vanuatu."
- Scripts, sistemas de escrita e ortografias
- Latin
- Ortografia
Use of glottal stop (<'>) in written works increasing, as is contrastive vowel length (e.g., ā).
- LUGARES
- Wallis Island
- DESCRIÇÃO DA LOCALIDADE
Mainly spoken on Wallis island (French overseas territory of Wallis and Futuna), with a sizeable group in New Caledonia that relocated there in the 1950s.