People on Vanuatu's Malekula Island speak more than 30 Indigenous languages. Here's why we must record them
- Written by Julie Barbour, Senior Lecturer, Linguistics, University of Waikato
Eric Lafforgue via Getty ImagesMalekula, the second-largest island in the Vanuatu archipelago, has a linguistic connection to Aotearoa. All of its many languages are distantly related to te reo Māori and the island is the site of a long-term project to document them.
Vanuatu has been described as the world’s “densest linguistic...





