Vera'a language

Vera'a
Vatrata
Native to	Vanuatu
Region	Vanua Lava
Native speakers	500 (2012)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southern Oceanic Vanuatu Northern Vanuatu East Vanuatu Vera'a
Language codes
ISO 639-3	vra
Glottolog	vera1241[2]

Vera’a (or Vatrata) is a language of Vanua Lava Island in Vanuatu.

Phonology

Vera’a has 7 phonemic vowels, which are all short monophthongs:^[3]

	Front	Back
Close	i	u
Near-close	ɪ	ʊ
Open-mid	ɛ	ɔ
Open	a

References

1. François (2012): 88).
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Vera'a". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. François (2005:445); François (2011:194).

Bibliography

• François, Alexandre (2005), "Unraveling the history of the vowels of seventeen northern Vanuatu languages", Oceanic Linguistics 44 (2): 443–504, doi:10.1353/ol.2005.0034
• François, Alexandre (2011), "Social ecology and language history in the northern Vanuatu linkage: A tale of divergence and convergence", Journal of Historical Linguistics 1 (2): 175–246, doi:10.1075/jhl.1.2.03fra
• François, Alexandre (2012), "The dynamics of linguistic diversity: Egalitarian multilingualism and power imbalance among northern Vanuatu languages", International Journal of the Sociology of Language 214: 85–110, doi:10.1515/ijsl-2012-0022