South Vanuatu languages

South Vanuatu
Geographic distribution:	Southern Vanuatu
Linguistic classification:	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southern Oceanic Southern Melanesian South Vanuatu

Glottolog:	`sout2868`^[1]

The nine South Vanuatu languages form a family of the Southern Oceanic languages.^[2]

Languages

Erromango family
- Southern: Sie, Sorung†
- Northern: Ifo (Utaha)†, Ura
  (See Erromanga language#Linguistic situation for a description)
Tanna family
- Southern: Kwamera (South Tanna), Southwest Tanna
- Northern: Lenakel (West Tanna), Whitesands (Weasisi, East Tanna), North Tanna
Aneityum
- Aneityum (Anejom̃)

References

↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "South Vanuatu". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
↑ Lynch, John; Malcolm Ross; Terry Crowley (2002). The Oceanic languages. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon. ISBN 978-0-7007-1128-4. OCLC 48929366. Cite uses deprecated parameter |coauthors= (help)

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