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Mavea (also rendered Mav̋ea, Mafea or Mavia) is an Oceanic language spoken on Mavea Island in Vanuatu, off the eastern coast of Espiritu Santo. It belongs to the North–Central Vanuatu linkage of Southern Oceanic. The total population of the island is approximately 172, with only 34 fluent speakers of the Mavea language reported in 2008. [1]
John Lynch (2019) [2] proposes the following classification scheme for the Espiritu Santo languages, with the development of bilabial consonants to linguolabials as the primary marker of the "Nuclear Santo" group:
There are over one hundred local languages spread over the archipelago (listed below), all of them belonging to the Austronesian family of languages.Vanuatu is the country with the highest density of languages per capita in the world: it currently shows an average of about 1,760 speakers for each indigenous language, and went through a historical low of 565; [1] only Papua New Guinea comes close.
Mavia or Mavea (known locally as Mav̋ea) is an inhabited island in Sanma Province of Vanuatu in the Pacific Ocean. [2] The island lies off the eastern coast of Espiritu Santo . The estimated terrain elevation above the sea level is some 63 metres.
MKV may refer to: .mkv, a filename extension for the Matroska multimedia container format; Mittelschüler-Kartellverband, an Austrian male fraternity organization; Multiple Kill Vehicle, U.S. missile defense program; Mavea language, ISO 639-3 language code mkv
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The Multiple Kill Vehicle (MKV) was a planned U.S. missile defense program [1] whose goal was to design, develop, and deploy multiple small kinetic energy-based warheads that can intercept and destroy multiple ballistic missiles, including possible decoy targets (penetration aids).
Mavea, an island in Vanuatu "Mavia", a character from Love from a Stranger; See also. Mawai (disambiguation) This page was last edited on 16 September 2024 ...