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Wailapa language

Wailapa, or Moiso or Ale, is an Oceanic language or dialect spoken on Espiritu Santo Island in Vanuatu.

It is possibly endangered, with its status described as "shifting". It is also described as "stable".

It has multiple dialects.

Classification

Wailapa is generally described as a language, but also as a dialect of the proposed, lexicostastically defined Southwest Santo language along with Araki, Tangoa, and Akei.

Selected vocabulary

The list below is a sample of words in Wailapa. 

References