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Vitu
Muduapa
Vitu, Mudua
Native toPapua New Guinea
Native speakers
(8,800 cited 1991)[1]
Language family
Austronesian
  • Malayo-Polynesian
    • Oceanic
      • Meso-Melanesian
        • Bali–Vitu
          • Vitu
Writing system
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3wiv
Glottologmudu1242
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Vitu (also spelled Witu or Vittu, referred by their own speakers as pole matotota 'true speech' or pole Vitu 'Vitu speech') or Muduapa is an Oceanic language spoken by about 7,000 people on the islands northwest of the coast of West New Britain in Papua New Guinea.

  1. ^ Vitu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

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