A Grammar of Unua
Elizabeth Pearce. 2015. A Grammar of Unua. De Gruyter Mouton.
Vulnerable
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
Speaker Number Trends
Speaker Number Trend 0
Almost all members of the community or ethnic group speak the language, and the number of speakers is stable or increasing.
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Domains of Use
Domain Of Use 1
Used in most domains except for official ones such as government, mass media, education etc.
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Transmission
Transmission -1
All members of the community, including children, speak the language.
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Speakers
Native or fluent speakers:
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Second-language speakers and learners
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Semi-speakers or rememberers
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Children:
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Young adults
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Older adults
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Elders
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Ethnic or community population
710 (as of 1999 The Vanuatu National Population and Housing Census)
Year information was gathered
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Comments on speakers
"Interactions between speakers of different vernacular languages are conducted in Bislama. Although schooling in Vanuatu is traditionally conducted in English or French, for adults, only the small numbers who have had some secondary school education have maintained degrees of fluency in either one of these languages, of which there would be only a handful in the Unua area with competency in French." (p.2)
Location and Context
Countries
Vanuatu
Location Description
"five villages strung out beside the north-south road which connects the centres of Norsup/Lakatoro in the centre-north and Lamap to the south"
Government Support
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Institutional Support
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Speakers' Attitude
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Other Languages Used By The Community
Bislama, English, French
Number of Other Language Speakers:
all bilingual in Bislama
Domains of Other Languages:
official domains; intragroup communications
Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
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Writing system:
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Other writing systems used:
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Recent Resources
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