Tolomako
[aka Tolomako-Jereviu, Big Bay, Marina]Classification: Austronesian
·endangered
Classification: Austronesian
·endangered
Tolomako-Jereviu, Big Bay, Marina |
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Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Northern Vanuatu |
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Information from: “Australia and the Pacific” (424-557) . Stephen A Wurm (2007) Routledge
450 speakers reported in 1987; may be a little less today.
Children are beginning to not learn the language.
Some literacy in language
Central northern Santo, around the southern coast of Big Bay
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
Speaker number data: (Lynch and Crowley 2001).
Used by 30% of children
Big Bay, Santo Island