Ura language (Vanuatu)

Ura
Native toVanuatu
RegionErromango
Native speakers
(6 cited 1998)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3uur
Glottologurav1235
ELPUra (Vanuatu)
Ura is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Ura is a moribund language of the island Erromango in Vanuatu. It was thought to be extinct, after massive depopulation of the island in the nineteenth century, until Terry Crowley discovered a handful of elderly speakers in the 1990s.[2]

  1. ^ Ura at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Crowley, Terry. 1999. "Ura : a disappearing language of Southern Vanuatu Canberra". Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. The Australian National University.