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Name: Vurës

Type: Language

Alternate Names: Mosina; Mosin; Banks-Inseln; Mwesen

Spoken in: Vanuatu

Number of speakers: 1,050 (Lynch and Crowley 2001) (Ethnologue)

Number of speakers: 15 (UNESCO)

Number of speakers: 400 (World Oral Literature Project)

Code: msn

Code Standard: ISO 639-3

Documentation: SIL

Families: Austronesian

Parent Subgroup: East Vanuatu (evan)

Child Dialects: Vetumboso (msn-vet) Vures; Vuras; Vureas; Avreas; Vurës (msn-vur) Mwesen (msn-mwe)

Endangerment Status

UNESCO Status: Critically endangered

Ethnologue Status: Not listed

Sutherland's Red List: Vulnerable

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