What is the Official Language of Vanuatu

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It has three official tongues, English, France and Bislama, a language stemming from English. Mislama is the first language of many municipal ni-Vanuatu, that is, the inhabitants of Port Vila and Luganville. This is the most widely used second language in the Vanuatu archipelago. Of the three official tongues, Bislama is the most widely used in Vanuatu, followed by English and finally Francon.

There is still an informal dividing line between the areas where English or even Franco-Swiss are educated at schools from the time Vanuatu was still an Anglo-French alliance. Ethnologue says that English is used by 1,900 people ('95) and English by 6,300 people ('95). English and Frensh are both second and Bislama is the main language for most people.

Home to more than a hundred tribal tongues, Vanuatu has a current census of 138. Most of them are called after the name of the place where they are used, although some of the bigger ones have several different nationalities. With about two dozens each, Espiritu Santo and Malakula are the most varied of them.

Vanuatu's native language is all Oceanic. There are three of the Futunian Group's Polish languages: All the other tongues are part of different parts of the South Pacific section of Oceano. See François et al (2015:8-9); and also Crowley (2000:50); François (2012:86). Extinction of the world's language. François (2012:104).

See François et al (2015). While Tryon (1976) listed 113 different tongues, Lynch & Crowley (2001) proposed a lower number of 88 using various criterions, many of which are continuities of diacritic. Refer to the debate in François et al (2015:4-7). Displays a listing of 112 different language versions. Refer to François et al. (2015:18-21) for a listing of 138 articles.

The bibliographic data on which this chart is based can be found for each language record. François, Alexandre (2012), "The dynamism of language diversity: Equalism, plurilingualism and imbalances of powers between the tongues of the North of Vanuatu", International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 214: 85-110, doi:10. 1515/ijsl-2012-0022.