Languages of Southern Vanuatu

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Classification

According to the work Ethnologue, this subgroup of languages is made up of:

• Aneityum
• Erraomanga languages
  • Sie
  • Ifo
  • Ura
• Tanna languages
  • Kwamera
  • Lenakel
  • North Tanna
  • Southwest Tanna
  • Whitesands

Lexical comparison

The numerals from 1 to 10 in different branches of Southern Vanuatu languages are:

GLOSA	Aneityum (Anejom)	Erromango		Tanna			PROTO- VANUATU MERIDIONAL
		Sie (Sye)	Ura	Lenakel	Tanna southwest	Whitesands
1	ithii	Haiteven haihi	ai(urgen)	karena	k krikian	kőtiambih	*tai~ *hai
2	erou	nru	elu	k-iu	k kraru	kambiiu	*-ru
3	that	nrehel	ehli	kssil	krsisrr	ksssl	*-sambil
4	emanohowan	nrvat	lemelu	kuvrr	kuas	kuvtt	*-vat
5	ničman	sukrim	suworem	katilum	k krkprpp	kěrilem	*-rim
6	meled	mehikai	Misai	5 + 1	5 + 1	(sikis)	*5+1
7	meled- erou	sukrim- nru	sinelu	5 + 2	5 + 2	(sipen)	*5+2
8	meled- that	sukrim- rehel	sinehli	5 + 3	5 + 3	(eit)	*5+3
9	meled- emanohowan	sukrim- ndvat	synivat	5 + 4	5 + 4	(naen)	*5+4
10	ničman- ničman	narwolem	lurem	5 + 5	5 + 5	(ten)	*5+5

The terms in parentheses are loanwords from English.