Mwotlap (pronounced [ŋ͡mʷɔtˈlap]; formerly known as Motlav) is an Oceanic language spoken by about 2,100 people in Vanuatu. The majority of speakers are...

Proto-North-Central Vanuatu etymon *loᵑgo; Hiw tegōv [təɣoβ], Lemerig 'ëgëv [ʔœɣœβ] and Mwotlap na-tgop [natɣɔp] reflect Proto-Torres-Banks *taɣoβe; Araki has ureeje [uɾeet͡ʃe]...

([k͡pʷaˈkɪ]) in Vurës; Qeke ([k͡pʷɛˈkɛ]) in Mwesen; Aqke ([ak͡pʷˈkɛ]) in Mwotlap. All of these names can be derived from a form *ᵐbʷaᵑgea in Proto-Torres-Banks...

in 17th-century French, the passé composé served as a hodiernal past). Mwotlap (Vanuatu) has a hodiernal future, which is the only absolute tense of its...

northern coast of the island. Lemerig has receded in favour of its neighbours Mwotlap and Vera'a. The name Lemerig refers to a now abandoned village in northern...

place is only known through its Mwotlap name Aplow; as for the language variety, it is often referred to, in the Mwotlap language, as na-vap te-Plōw “the...

structures et liberté dans l'organisation du discours. Une description du mwotlap, langue océanienne du Vanuatu (in French), Paris: PhD dissertation, Université...

of seventeen languages are still spoken: Hiw, Lo-Toga, Lehali, Löyöp, Mwotlap, Volow (extinct), Lemerig, Vera'a, Vurës, Mwesen, Mota, Nume, Dorig, Koro...

different phonemes. Thus, in several languages of the Banks Islands, including Mwotlap, the simple m stands for /m/, but an m with a macron (m̄) is a rounded...

labial–velar stop with a labial–velar approximant release, hence [k͡pʷ]. Thus Mwotlap (Banks Islands, north Vanuatu) has [k͡pʷɪlɣɛk] ('my father-in-law'). In...