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Avava
Katbol
Native to
Vanuatu
Region
Central Malekula
Native speakers
700 (2001)[1]
Language family
Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Oceanic
Southern Oceanic
North-Central Vanuatu
Central Vanuatu
Malakula
Malakula Interior
Avava
Language codes
ISO 639-3
tmb
Glottolog
katb1237
ELP
Avava
Avava is not endangered according to the classification system of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
Avava (Navava), also known as Katbol, Tembimbe-Katbol, or Bangsa’ is an Oceanic language of central Malekula, Vanuatu. It has nasalized fricatives and a bilabial trill.
The four Avava-speaking villages speak or spoke, distinct dialects. Timbembe and Nevaar (Nɨviar) are still spoken. The Nivat (Nevat) and Bangasa (Umbrul) dialects are extinct. Bangasa/Bangsa', or more correctly Bangasak, was known as Numbuwul by its neighbors to the north; the endonym is Umbbuul[(u)ᵐʙuːl].
^Avava at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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