Ni-Vanuatu
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| Total population | |
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| 245,100 in Vanuatu | |
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| Languages | |
| English, French, Melanesian languages | |
| Religion | |
| Christian (Presbyterian, Anglican, Roman Catholic), Animism |
Ni-Vanuatu is a demonym used to refer to all Melanesian ethnicities originating in Vanuatu. It also refers, more generally, to nationals and citizens of Vanuatu, whatever their ethnicity.[1][2][3][4]
This recent coinage builds on the particle ni, which in some indigenous languages encodes the genitive, similar to the English ‘of’. Thus Ni-Vanuatu literally means ‘of Vanuatu’.
The term is mostly used in English and French, and is hardly used in Bislama, the country’s lingua franca,[5] let alone in the indigenous languages of the archipelago.
NiVan is a commonly used abbreviation of Ni-Vanuatu.
See also
References
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- ↑ "Ni-Vanuatu arrested NZ", Radio Vanuatu, March 10, 2009
- ↑ "Des Ni-Vanuatu en final des Masters", Agence universitaire francophone, July 31, 2008
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Bislama uses more commonly such phrases as man Vanuatu (“V. person” or “V. people”) or blong Vanuatu (“from V.”).
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