Vao language

{{Short description|Oceanic language spoken in Vanuatu}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Vao

|region=Vao Island and northern Malakula, Vanuatu

|speakers=1,900

|date=2001

|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=vao

|glotto=vaoo1237

|glottorefname=Vao

|map = Lang Status 99-NE.svg

|mapcaption = {{center|{{small|Vao is not endangered according to the classification system of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger}}}}

}}

Vao is an Austronesian language of the Oceanic branch spoken by about 1,900 people on Vao Island and on the nearby shores of Malakula Island, Vanuatu.[http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=vao Ethnologue report for Vao]