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Efatese language

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Created by
  
ISO 639-3
  
None (mis)

Date
  
19th century

Setting and usage
  
evangelism on Efate Island, now in Vanuatu

Purpose
  
constructed languagemixed languageEfatese

Sources
  
the Oceanic languages of Efate

Efatese is an artificial mixed language of Efate Island in Vanuatu. There are half a dozen languages spoken on Efate, of which the languages of North Efate and South Efate are not particularly closely related, and when missionary activity began on the island, at Port Havannah in the northwest of the island, a mixture of the target languages was invented for evangelism and scripture, in preference to promoting one indigenous language over the others.

References

Efatese language Wikipedia


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