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- Raga_language abstract "Raga (also known as Hano) is the language of northern Pentecost island in Vanuatu. Raga belongs to the East Vanuatu languages, a branch of the Austronesian languages family. In old sources the language is sometimes referred to by the names of villages in which it is spoken, such as Bwatvenua (Qatvenua), Lamalanga, Vunmarama and Loltong.With an estimated 6,500 native speakers (in the year 2000), Raga is the second most widely-spoken of Pentecost's five native languages (after Apma), and the seventh largest vernacular in Vanuatu as a whole. There are significant communities of Raga speakers on Maewo island and in Port Vila and Luganville as a result of emigration from Pentecost.The Raga spoken by most people today is heavily mixed with Bislama, Vanuatu's national language. The Turaga indigenous movement, based at Lavatmanggemu in north-eastern Pentecost, have attempted to purge the language of foreign influences by coining or rediscovering native words for introduced concepts such as "torch battery" (vat bongbongi, literally "night stones") and "hour" (ngguha, literally "movement"). Members of the Turaga movement write in Raga language using Avoiuli, a unique writing system inspired by local sand drawings.Raga is generally considered an easy language to speak and learn, and is known as a second language by a number of speakers of other Vanuatu languages.Modern Raga is relatively homogeneous, with no significant dialectal variation. A distinctive southern dialect of Raga, Nggasai, is now extinct; its last native speaker died in 1999.Several grammatical sketches, vocabulary lists and short papers on Raga have been published, beginning with the work of R H Codrington and von der Gabelentz in the late 19th century, and a number of religious texts have been translated into the language. However, no thorough description of Raga has ever been published.".
- Raga_language iso6393Code "lml".
- Raga_language languageFamily Malayo-Polynesian_languages.
- Raga_language languageFamily Oceanic_languages.
- Raga_language languageFamily Southern_Oceanic_languages.
- Raga_language languageFamily Vanuatu.
- Raga_language spokenIn Pentecost_Island.
- Raga_language spokenIn Vanuatu.
- Raga_language wikiPageExternalLink raga_hc.htm.
- Raga_language wikiPageExternalLink raga.
- Raga_language wikiPageID "24020705".
- Raga_language wikiPageRevisionID "577386420".
- Raga_language altname "Hano".
- Raga_language date "2001".
- Raga_language fam East_Vanuatu_languages.
- Raga_language fam Malayo-Polynesian_languages.
- Raga_language fam Oceanic_languages.
- Raga_language fam Southern_Oceanic_languages.
- Raga_language fam "Vanuatu".
- Raga_language familycolor "Austronesian".
- Raga_language hasPhotoCollection Raga_language.
- Raga_language iso "lml".
- Raga_language name "Raga".
- Raga_language ref "e17".
- Raga_language region Pentecost_Island.
- Raga_language speakers "6500".
- Raga_language states Vanuatu.
- Raga_language subject Category:East_Vanuatu_languages.
- Raga_language subject Category:Languages_of_Vanuatu.
- Raga_language type Abstraction100002137.
- Raga_language type Communication100033020.
- Raga_language type EastVanuatuLanguages.
- Raga_language type Language106282651.
- Raga_language type LanguagesOfVanuatu.
- Raga_language type Language.
- Raga_language type Language.
- Raga_language type Language.
- Raga_language type InformationEntity.
- Raga_language comment "Raga (also known as Hano) is the language of northern Pentecost island in Vanuatu. Raga belongs to the East Vanuatu languages, a branch of the Austronesian languages family.".
- Raga_language label "Hano".
- Raga_language label "Língua raga".
- Raga_language label "Raga language".
- Raga_language sameAs Hano.
- Raga_language sameAs Língua_raga.
- Raga_language sameAs m.02hxkky.
- Raga_language sameAs Q3063193.
- Raga_language sameAs Q3063193.
- Raga_language sameAs Raga_language.
- Raga_language wasDerivedFrom Raga_language?oldid=577386420.
- Raga_language isPrimaryTopicOf Raga_language.
- Raga_language name "Raga".