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Name: Motlav
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Motalava; Mwotlap; Banks-Inseln
Spoken in: Vanuatu
Number of speakers: 2,200 (Lynch and Crowley 2001) (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 1 (UNESCO)
Number of speakers: 1275 (World Oral Literature Project)
Code: mlv
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Austronesian
Parent Subgroup: East Vanuatu (evan)
Child Dialect: Volow; Valuva; Valuwa; Valuga (mlv-vol)

Endangerment Status


UNESCO Status: Critically endangered
Ethnologue Status: Not listed
Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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