vanuatu in English

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a country that consists of a group of islands in the southwestern Pacific Ocean; population 218,500 (est. 2009); capital, Vila; languages, Bislama, English, and French (all official).

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1. In 2006, Vanuatu topped the global Happy Planet Index.

2. Title: Bislama: An Introduction to the National Language of Vanuatu Bislama: An Introduction to the National Language of Vanuatu, Darrell T

3. Man holding a human skull in Amelbati Cannibal site, Malampa Province, Malekula Island, Vanuatu on August 27, 2007 in Malekula Island, Vanuatu

4. Bislama emi wanpela tokples na toktok long bung bilong Vanuatu

5. This pendant is manufactured in Vanuatu and is a favorite as it is the latest in line of the Vanuatu Bijouterie vintage pendant collection

6. In addition 113 indigenous languages are still actively spoken in Vanuatu.

7. Acy Capital Australia Limited (“Acy LTD”) , Acy LTD is incorporated in Vanuatu, company number 012868, and is regulated by the Vanuatu Financial Services Commission (VFSC)

8. Acy Capital Australia Limited ('Acy LTD'), Acy LTD is incorporated in Vanuatu, company number 012868, and is regulated by the Vanuatu Financial Services Commission (VFSC)

9. Acy Capital Australia Limited ('Acy LTD') , Acy LTD is incorporated in Vanuatu, company number 012868, and is regulated by the Vanuatu Financial Services Commission (VFSC)

10. European diseases also wreaked havoc on the islands of Vanuatu.

11. Bislama is one of the three national languages of Vanuatu

12. Lonsdale was the second Anglican priest to be elected president of Vanuatu.

13. Bislama is a Melanesian creole language, one of the official languages of Vanuatu

14. "Kilman Takes Over as Vanuatu Prime Minister, Natapei falls to Vanuatu's fickle parliament".

15. It has been introduced to Vanuatu as a feral animal in the 1960s.

16. Lo-Toga is an Oceanic language spoken on the Torres Islands of Vanuatu.

17. He responded by leaving the NUP and founding the Vanuatu National Party in 2004.

18. Bislama is the major common language that is used by most of the people of Vanuatu

19. A collection of useful phrases in Bislama, an English-based creole language spoken in Vanuatu.

20. Christianity is the predominant religion across Vanuatu, followed by more than 90% of the population.

21. Bislama Language About: Bislama is a creole language, one of the official languages of Vanuatu

22. Burly Girls, Bowheads, Young Studs, and the Old Bunch is the second episode of Survivor: Vanuatu

23. In Vanuatu, Bislama serves as the neutral language and English/French serve as the outside languages

24. Bislama is a pidgin language used in Vanuatu and is now a creole in urban areas

25. During World War II, half a million U.S. soldiers passed through Vanuatu en route to Pacific battlefields.

26. (The only people in Vanuatu who do not always speak Bislama well are children and old women in villages.)

27. to accept the offer of Vanuatu to host a regional meeting directly after the 16th Session in Port Moresby;

28. Vanuatu is a tax haven that until 2008 did not release account information to other governments or law-enforcement agencies.

29. Bislama, also known as Bichelamar is a language of Vanuatu Fiji. It has more than 10,000 users widespread in the region

30. In New Guinea and Vanuatu, there are areas where it is customary for the men to wear nothing but penis sheaths in public.

31. Bislama (English /ˈbɪsləmɑː/; Bislama: [bislaˈma]; also known under its earlier name in French Bichelamar [biʃlamaʁ]) is a creole language, one of the official languages of Vanuatu

32. There are over one hundred separate languages belonging to the Oceanic subgroup of the larger Austronesian family spoken in Vanuatu, but almost everybody also speaks Bislama as a second language.

33. Bislama is a pidgin language used in Vanuatu and is now a creole in urban areas. It essentially combines a typically Melanesian grammar with a mostly English vocabulary

34. He has written Beach-la-Mar to Bislama: The emergence of a national language in Vanuatu, as well as a grammar and a dictionary of the language of Paama

35. The flora of Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia is tropical dry forest, with tropical vegetation that includes palm trees, premna protrusa, psydrax odorata, gyrocarpus americanus and derris trifoliata.

36. This little-known seabird was first scientifically described in 2001 based on six specimens taken in 1927 off Merelava, Vanuatu, and a single bird found ashore in 1983 in New South Wales, Australia.

37. • Beach-la-mar: the jargon or trade speech of the western Pacific, by William Churchill (1911) The Bislama is a Melanesian pidgin used as contact language in Vanuatu, former New Hebrides.

38. Other articles where Bislama language is discussed: Vanuatu: People: …languages and dialects are spoken; Bislama, an English-based Melanesian pidgin, is the national language and, along with English and French, is one of three official languages.

39. Proctophantastes Brayi n. sp. (Digenea: Zoogonidae; Lepidophyllinae) has been found in the intestine of two species of deep-sea fish Polymixia (silver eye fish) near the island of Erromango in Vanuatu at a depth ranging from 720 to 830 m

40. Bislama là một ngôn ngữ creole, đây là một trong các ngôn ngữ chính thức của Vanuatu.Bislama là ngôn ngữ thứ nhất của nhiều "ni-Vanuatu đô thị" (sống tại Port Vila và Luganville), và là ngôn ngữ thứ hai của phần dân số còn lại của nước này."Yumi, Yumi, Yumi",quốc ca Vanuatu, được hát bằng tiếng Bislama.

41. But for the first time, at the beginning of this year, the Cyclone Pam, which destroyed Vanuatu, and in the process, the very edges of it actually touched our two southernmost islands, and all of Tuvalu was underwater when Hurricane Pam struck.

42. There are 251 Bislama-related words in total, with the top 5 most semantically related being vanuatu, pidgin, tok pisin, english and languages of vanuatu.You can get the definition(s) of a word in the list below by tapping the question-mark icon next to it.

43. Also called Beach-la-mar or bêche-de-mer ‘Even in cases where a Creole has status as a national or official language, as Bislama, for instance, does in Vanuatu, or Haitian Creole French does in Haiti, this does not guarantee the use of Creoles in wider society.’

44. A variety of Melanesian pidgin and the national language of VANUATU, sharing official status with English and French, which are the principal languages of education.Bislama, descended from BEACH LA MAR, is a LINGUA FRANCA for a population speaking some 100 distinct local languages, and is more or less evenly distributed throughout the country.

45. Bislama (; ; also known under its earlier name in French Bichelamar) is a creole language, one of the official languages of Vanuatu.It is the first language of many of the "Urban ni-Vanuatu" (those who live in Port Vila and Luganville), and the second language of much of the rest of the country's residents.