Languages of northern and central Vanuatu

Did you mean: <pLan lenguas del norte y centro de Vanuatu son un subgrupo de las lenguas oceánicas meridionales. Se compone de un conjunto de unas 95 lenguas.

Classification

• Eastern Holy Spirit Languages
• Languages of the interior of Malakula
• Languages of the northeast of Vanuatu and Banks Island
  • Éfaté-Shepherd languages
  • Eastern Vanuatu Languages
  • Epi languages
  • Languages of the coast of Malakula
  • Languages of Western Holy Spirit

Lexical comparison

The numerals from 1 to 10 reconstructed for different branches of languages of central and northern Vanuatu are:

GLOSA	PROTO-SANTOORIENTAL	PROTO-MALAKULAINTERIOR	Languages of the north-east of Vanuatu
			PROTO-ÉFATÉ-SHEPHERD	PROTO-VANUATU-ORIENTAL	PROTO-EPI	PROTO-MALAKUKAde COSTA	PROTO- SANTO OCCIDENTAL
1	♪	♪	*si-kai/ *-tesa		♪ Tai	*-tes
2	*-ru	♪ I-ru	♪		♪ moon	*-rua
3	*-tol	*i-tambil	♪		♪	*-tambil
4	*--at~ *--️	*i-βat	*		*βari	*-βati
5	*lim-	*i-lim	*		*	*-lima
6	*5+1	*X+1	♪ the-thousse		♪ it-rai	*X+1
7	*5+2	*X+2	♪ the-rua		♪ Loko-lua	*X+2
8	*5+3	*X+3	♪ the-tolu		*loko-rambilu	*X+3
9	*5+4	*X+4	♪ it--ati		*loko-βari	*X+4
10	*saŭul	*saŭaβol	*nrua-lima		♪ light-lima 2 x 5	*saĐaβul