Maragus

MRS

nearly extinct

Alternate Names: Maragaus, Tape, Tobah

Genealogy:

Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
Oceanic
Central-Eastern Oceanic
Remote Oceanic
North and Central Vanuatu
Malekula Interior
Malekula Central

Demographics: 15 (Lynch and Crowley 2001).

Language Use: Seriously endangered (2000 D. Tryon). Shifted to Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin [upv]. A handful of elderly speakers in the coastal village of Tautu (1996 T. Crowley).

Nation of Origin: Vanuatu