Wailapa language

Wailapa
	Ale
Native to	Vanuatu
Region	Espiritu Santo
Native speakers	(100 cited 1981)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southern Oceanic Northern Vanuatu Northeast Vanuatu – Banks Islands West Santo Wailapa; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wlr
Glottolog	wail1242
ELP	Wailapa[2]

Wailapa, or Ale, is an Oceanic language spoken on Espiritu Santo Island in Vanuatu. It is in a dialect chain between Akei and Penantsiro,[3] but these are not mutually intelligible.

References

Wailapa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Endangered Languages Project data for Wailapa.
Ethnologue identifies Penantsiro with the code for Piamatsina, but this would not seem to be credible.

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