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Index Mele-Fila language

Mele-Fila (Ifira-Mele) is a Polynesian language spoken in Mele and Ifira on the island of Efate in Vanuatu.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 45 relations: Alveolar consonant, Alveolo-palatal consonant, Approximant, Arthur Capell, Back vowel, Bilabial consonant, Bislama, Central Vanuatu languages, Central vowel, Close vowel, Consonant cluster, Creole language, Efate, English language, French language, Fricative, Front vowel, Gemination, Glottal consonant, Ifira, Labialization, Lapita culture, Malayo-Polynesian languages, Mele Island, Mid vowel, Nasal consonant, Obstruent, Oceanic languages, Open vowel, PARADISEC, Plosive, Plural, Polynesian languages, Polynesian outlier, Port Vila, Remote Oceania, Sonorant, Stress (linguistics), Syllable, Taiwan, Trill consonant, Vanuatu, Velar consonant, Voice (phonetics), Voicelessness.

  2. Futunic languages
  3. Polynesian outliers

Alveolar consonant

Alveolar (UK also) consonants are articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior alveolar ridge, which is called that because it contains the alveoli (the sockets) of the upper teeth.

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Alveolo-palatal consonant

In phonetics, alveolo-palatal (alveolopalatal, alveo-palatal or alveopalatal) consonants, sometimes synonymous with pre-palatal consonants, are intermediate in articulation between the coronal and dorsal consonants, or which have simultaneous alveolar and palatal articulation.

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Approximant

Approximants are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough nor with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow.

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Arthur Capell

Arthur Capell (28 March 1902 – 10 August 1986) was an Australian linguist, who made major contributions to the study of Australian languages, Austronesian languages and Papuan languages.

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Back vowel

A back vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in spoken languages.

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Bilabial consonant

In phonetics, a bilabial consonant is a labial consonant articulated with both lips.

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Bislama

Bislama (also known by its earlier French name, bichelamar) is an English-based creole language and one of the official languages of Vanuatu. Mele-Fila language and Bislama are languages of Vanuatu.

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Central Vanuatu languages

The Central Vanuatu languages form a linkage of Southern Oceanic languages spoken in central Vanuatu. Mele-Fila language and central Vanuatu languages are languages of Vanuatu.

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Central vowel

A central vowel, formerly also known as a mixed vowel, is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.

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Close vowel

A close vowel, also known as a high vowel (in U.S. terminology), is any in a class of vowel sounds used in many spoken languages.

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Consonant cluster

In linguistics, a consonant cluster, consonant sequence or consonant compound, is a group of consonants which have no intervening vowel.

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Creole language

A creole language, or simply creole, is a stable natural language that develops from the process of different languages simplifying and mixing into a new form (often a pidgin), and then that form expanding and elaborating into a full-fledged language with native speakers, all within a fairly brief period.

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Efate

Efate (Éfaté) is an island in the Pacific Ocean which is part of the Shefa Province in Vanuatu.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. Mele-Fila language and French language are languages of Vanuatu.

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Fricative

A fricative is a consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.

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Front vowel

A front vowel is a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages, its defining characteristic being that the highest point of the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would otherwise make it a consonant.

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Gemination

In phonetics and phonology, gemination (from Latin 'doubling', itself from gemini 'twins'), or consonant lengthening, is an articulation of a consonant for a longer period of time than that of a singleton consonant.

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Glottal consonant

Glottal consonants are consonants using the glottis as their primary articulation.

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Ifira

Ifira is an offshore island of Efate, located in Shefa Province of Vanuatu in the Pacific Ocean.

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Labialization

Labialization is a secondary articulatory feature of sounds in some languages.

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Lapita culture

The Lapita culture is the name given to a Neolithic Austronesian people and their distinct material culture, who settled Island Melanesia via a seaborne migration at around 1600 to 500 BCE.

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Malayo-Polynesian languages

The Malayo-Polynesian languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages, with approximately 385.5 million speakers.

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Mele Island

Mele Island (also known as Hideaway Island) is a Polynesian outlier and islet in Vanuatu. Mele-Fila language and Mele Island are Polynesian outliers.

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Mid vowel

A mid vowel (or a true-mid vowel) is any in a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages.

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Nasal consonant

In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive or nasal stop in contrast with an oral stop or nasalized consonant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.

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Obstruent

An obstruent is a speech sound such as,, or that is formed by obstructing airflow.

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Oceanic languages

The approximately 450 Oceanic languages are a branch of the Austronesian languages.

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Open vowel

An open vowel is a vowel sound in which the tongue is positioned as far as possible from the roof of the mouth.

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PARADISEC

The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) is a digital archive of records of some of the many small cultures and languages of the world.

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Plosive

In phonetics, a plosive, also known as an occlusive or simply a stop, is a pulmonic consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases.

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Plural

The plural (sometimes abbreviated as pl., pl, or), in many languages, is one of the values of the grammatical category of number.

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Polynesian languages

The Polynesian languages form a genealogical group of languages, itself part of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian family.

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Polynesian outlier

Polynesian outliers are a number of culturally Polynesian societies that geographically lie outside the main region of Polynesian influence, known as the Polynesian Triangle; instead, Polynesian outliers are scattered in the two other Pacific subregions, Melanesia and Micronesia. Mele-Fila language and Polynesian outlier are Polynesian outliers.

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Port Vila

Port Vila (Port-Vila), or simply Vila, is the capital and largest city of Vanuatu.

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Remote Oceania

Remote Oceania is the part of Oceania first settled within the last 5,000 to 5,500 years (i.e. since 3500 BC), comprising (first inhabitants) the Chamorro from the Marianas Islands, all Micronesian Islands (such as the Caroline Islands including Palau, Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei, and Kosrae and the Line Islands including Kiribati), south-eastern Island Melanesia and islands in the open Pacific east of the Solomon Islands: Fiji, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Polynesia, the Santa Cruz Islands, and Vanuatu.

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Sonorant

In phonetics and phonology, a sonorant or resonant is a speech sound that is produced with continuous, non-turbulent airflow in the vocal tract; these are the manners of articulation that are most often voiced in the world's languages.

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Stress (linguistics)

In linguistics, and particularly phonology, stress or accent is the relative emphasis or prominence given to a certain syllable in a word or to a certain word in a phrase or sentence.

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Syllable

A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds, typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants).

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.

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Trill consonant

In phonetics, a trill is a consonantal sound produced by vibrations between the active articulator and passive articulator.

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Vanuatu

Vanuatu, officially the Republic of Vanuatu (République de Vanuatu; Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island country in Melanesia, located in the South Pacific Ocean.

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Velar consonant

Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth (also known as the "velum").

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Voice (phonetics)

Voice or voicing is a term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds (usually consonants).

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Voicelessness

In linguistics, voicelessness is the property of sounds being pronounced without the larynx vibrating.

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See also

Futunic languages

Polynesian outliers

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mele-Fila_language

Also known as Fila language, Fila-Mele language, ISO 639:mxe, Ifira Mele language, Ifira-Mele language, Mele language, Mele-Fila, Mele-Ifira language.