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Erromangan, or Sie (Sye), is the primary language spoken on the island Erromango in the Tafea region of the Vanuatu islands. The other Erromanga languages are either moribund or extinct. Although the island is quite large (887 km 2), the total number of speakers of Erromango is estimated at 1900.
The nine South Vanuatu languages form a family of the Southern Oceanic languages, [1] spoken in Tafea Province ( Tanna, Aneityum, Futuna, Erromango, and Aniwa) of Vanuatu . Languages. Erromango family. Southern: Sie, Sorung †. Northern: Ifo (Utaha)†, Ura. (See Erromanga language#Linguistic situation for a description) Tanna family.
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Erromangan is spoken as the first language in 90.4% of Erromango's households. Of Erromangans over the age of five, 63.6% [62] are literate in Bislama , Vanuatu's lingua franca . 62.3% [63] are literate in English and 19.0% [64] are literate in French, Vanuatu's two official languages.
Erromangan, or Sie (Sye), is the primary language spoken on the island Erromango in the Tafea region of the Vanuatu islands. The other Erromanga languages are either moribund or extinct. Although the island is quite large (887 km²), the total number of speakers of Erromango is estimated at around 1900.
Erromangan, or Sie (Sye), is the primary language spoken on the island Erromango in the Tafea region of the Vanuatu islands. The other Erromanga languages are either moribund or extinct. Although the island is quite large (887 km²), the total number of speakers of Erromango is estimated at around 1900. Linguistic situation
L'A. retrace l'histoire de l'ile d'Erromango (Oceanie, Vanuatu) afin d'expliquer la situation linguistique actuelle de cette ile et la disparition d'une partie de sa diversite linguistique.
Originally founded in the early 1970s, the Erromango Cultural Association (ECA) was revived in 2008 after a hiatus by current and former Vanuatu Cultural Centre fieldworkers dedicated to recording and reviving traditional Erromangan culture. Since 2008, the Erromangan community has been involved in a number of (self-funded) cultural promotion ...
