Ura language (Vanuatu)

Ura
Ura
Native to	Vanuatu
Region	Erromango
Native speakers	(6 cited 1998)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southern Oceanic South Vanuatu Erromangan Ura; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	uur
Glottolog	urav1235
ELP	Ura (Vanuatu)
	Ura is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Ura is a moribund language of the island Erromango in Vanuatu. It was thought to be extinct, after massive depopulation of the island in the nineteenth century, until Terry Crowley discovered a handful of elderly speakers in the 1990s.^[2]

^ Ura at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Crowley, Terry. 1999. "Ura : a disappearing language of Southern Vanuatu". Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. The Australian National University.

[e18-1] Ura at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] Crowley, Terry. 1999. "Ura : a disappearing language of Southern Vanuatu". Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. The Australian National University.

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Ura language (Vanuatu)

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