Tangoa language

Tangoa
	Mara Tatagoa
Region	Tangoa Island, Vanuatu
Native speakers	800 (2001)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southern Oceanic Northern Vanuatu Northeast Vanuatu – Banks Islands West Santo Tangoa; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tgp
Glottolog	tang1347
ELP	Tangoa[2]

Tangoa, or Leon Tatagoa, is an Oceanic language spoken on Tangoa Island, south of Espiritu Santo Island in Vanuatu. The community was an early settlement for Christian missionaries, leading to its use as a linguafranca in the area.[3]

Characteristics

Tangoa is one of the few languages of Vanuatu, and indeed of the world, possessing a set of linguolabial consonants.

References

Tangoa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Endangered Languages Project data for Tangoa.
Vari-Bogiri, Hannah (2008). "A Sociolinguistic Survey of Araki: A Dying Language of Vanuatu". Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 26 (1). doi:10.1080/14790710508668398.

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[e18-1] Tangoa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[ELP1-2] Endangered Languages Project data for Tangoa.

[3] Vari-Bogiri, Hannah (2008). "A Sociolinguistic Survey of Araki: A Dying Language of Vanuatu". Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 26 (1). doi:10.1080/14790710508668398.