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Volow (formerly
known as
Valuwa or Valuga) is an
Oceanic language variety that used to be
spoken in the area of Aplow, in the
eastern part of the island...
- labial–velar
approximant release: [k͡pʷ], [ŋ͡mʷ]. The
extinct language Volow had a
prenasalised labial-velar stop with
labialization [ᵑ͡ᵐɡ͡bʷ]. Bilabial...
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first described in any
detail in 2001, by the
linguist Alexandre François.
Volow,
which used to be
spoken on the same island, may be
considered a dialect...
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Volow Hiw – Lo-Toga Vurës –
Mwesen Lemerig – Vera'a Koro –
Olrat –
Lakon Dorig – Koro –
Olrat –
Lakon Olrat –
Lakon Lehali – Löyöp –
Mwotlap –
Volow 15...
- all Oceanic. From
north to south, they are: Hiw, Lo-Toga, Lehali, Löyöp,
Volow, Mwotlap, Lemerig, Vera'a, Vurës, Mwesen, Mota, Nume, Dorig, Koro, Olrat...
- one of the few
Austronesian languages –
along with
standard Samoan and
Volow – that do not have a
phoneme /k/ and do not use the
letter K. In its morphology...
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languages (ranked geographically, from NW to SE): Hiw, Lo-Toga, Lehali, Löyöp,
Volow, Mwotlap, Lemerig, Vera'a, Vurës, Mwesen, Mota, Nume, Dorig, Koro, Olrat...
- Hiw, Lo-Toga (“Loh”)
Banks Islands: Lehali–Löyöp (“Ureparapara”), Mwotlap–
Volow (“Mwotlav”), Lemerig–Vera’a (“Vera'a”), Vurës–Mwesen (“Vurës”), Mota, Nume...
- Torres–Banks Hiw Lo-Toga
Lehali Löyöp
Mwotlap Volow Lemerig Vera’a Vurës
Mwesen Mota Nume
Dorig Koro
Olrat Lakon Mwerlap Maewo–Ambae–
North Pentecost...
- Dorig,
Mwotlap protruded prenasalized voiced labial–velar stop [ᵑᵐɡ͡bʷ]
Volow Affricates sibilant labzd voiceless alveolar affricate [t͡sʷ] Adyghe, Archi...
