Vao

VAO

vigorous

Dialects: Fooa.

Genealogy:

Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
Oceanic
Central-Eastern Oceanic
Remote Oceanic
North and Central Vanuatu
Northeast Vanuatu-Banks Islands
Malekula Coastal

Demographics: 1,900 (Lynch and Crowley 2001).

Nation of Origin: Vanuatu