Aveteian language

{{Short description|Endangered Oceanic language of Vanuatu}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Aveteian

|altname=Dixon Reef

|pronunciation={{IPA|[avəteián₂]}}

|states=Vanuatu

|region=Malakula

|speakers=probably fewer than 50

|date=2007

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Austronesian

|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian

|fam3=Oceanic

|fam4=Southern Oceanic

|fam5=North-Central Vanuatu

|fam6=Central Vanuatu

|fam7=Malakula

|fam8=Malakula Interior

|iso3=dix

|glotto=dixo1238

|glottorefname=Dixon Reef

|map = Lang Status 20-CR.svg

|mapcaption = {{center|{{small|Aveteian is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger}}}}

}}

Aveteian (Dixon Reef) is a possibly extinct language of Vanuatu, presumably one of the Malekula Interior languages.See p.107 of:
Blust, Robert. 2013. [http://hdl.handle.net/1885/10191 The Austronesian Languages]. (Rev. ed.) Asia-Pacific Linguistics Open Access monographs, A-PL 008. Canberra, ACT: Asia-Pacific Linguistics. In the early twentieth century it was spoken by a few families living to the north of Ninde.Lynch & Crowley, 2001, Languages of Vanuatu: A New Survey and Bibliography. Australian National University.