Uripiv Island is a small inhabited island in
Malampa Province
Malampa is one of the six provinces of Vanuatu, located in the center of the country. It consists of three main islands: Malakula, Ambrym and Paama, and takes its name from the first syllable of their names. It includes a number of other island ...
of
Vanuatu
Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (french: link=no, République de Vanuatu; bi, Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island country located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of ...
in the Pacific Ocean. Uripiv lies off the north coast of
Malekula Island. The estimated terrain elevation above the sea level is some 8 meters.
Population
As of 2015, the official local population was 351 people in 76 households.
Local people speak
Uripiv language
Northeast Malakula, or Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin, is a dialect chain spoken on the islands of Uripiv, Wala, Rano, and Atchin and on the mainland opposite to these islands. Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin is spoken today by about 9,000 people. Literacy ra ...
, a dialect of the language spoken on the north-east coast of
Malakula
Malakula Island, also spelled Malekula, is the second-largest island in the nation of Vanuatu, formerly the New Hebrides, in Melanesia, a region of the Pacific Ocean.
Location
Malakula is separated from the islands of Espiritu Santo and Malo by t ...
. The language is referred to as Northeast Malakula or Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin, and is spoken on the islands of Uripiv,
Wala __NOTOC__
Wala may refer to:
Places
* Wala (island), a small island in Vanuatu, and a popular destination for cruise ships
* Wala, Panama, a community in Kuna de WargandÃ, Panama
*Kingdom of Wala a pre-colonial polity in the north of modern Ghana ...
,
Rano, and
Atchin and on the mainland opposite to these islands.
References
Islands of Vanuatu
Malampa Province
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