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Language of Vanuatu
Butmas
Butmas-Tur
Farafi
Native toVanuatu
RegionSanto Island
Native speakers(520 cited 1983)
Language familyAustronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3bnr
Glottologbutm1237
ELPButmas-Tur
Butmas is not endangered according to the classification system of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Butmas, also Butmas-Tur or Farafi, is a language of the interior of Santo Island in Vanuatu.

References

  1. Butmas at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Languages of Vanuatu
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Indigenous
languages
(Southern
Oceanic

and Polynesian)
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Vanuatu
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Vanuatu
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Southern
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Loyalties–
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Southern
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  • † indicates extinct status
Austronesian languages
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Western
Philippine
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Celebic
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Oceanic
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  • ? indicates classification dispute
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