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Raga (also known as Hano) is the language of northern Pentecost island in Vanuatu. Raga belongs to the East Vanuatu languages,
a branch of the Austronesian languages family. In old sources the language is sometimes referred to by the names of villages
in which it is spoken, such as Bwatvenua (Qatvenua), Lamalanga, Vunmarama and Loltong. With an estimated 6,500 native speakers
(in the year 2000), Raga is the second most widely-spoken of Pentecost's five native languages, and the seventh largest vernacular
in Vanuatu as a whole. There are significant communities of Raga speakers on Maewo island and in Port Vila and Luganville
as a result of emigration from Pentecost. The Raga spoken by most people today is heavily mixed with Bislama, Vanuatu's national
language. The Turaga indigenous movement, based at Lavatmanggemu in north-eastern Pentecost, have attempted to purge the language
of foreign influences by coining or rediscovering native words for introduced concepts such as torch battery (vat bongbongi,
literally night stones) and hour (ngguha, literally movement). Members of the Turaga movement write in Raga language using
Avoiuli, a unique writing system inspired by local sand drawings. Raga is generally considered an easy language to speak and
learn, and is known as a second language by a number of speakers of other Vanuatu languages. Modern Raga is relatively homogeneous,
with no significant dialectal variation. A distinctive southern dialect of Raga, Nggasai, is now extinct; its last native
speaker died in 1999. Several grammatical sketches, vocabulary lists and short papers on Raga have been published, beginning
with the work of R H Codrington and von der Gabelentz in the late 19th century, and a number of religious texts have been
translated into the language. However, no thorough description of Raga has ever been published. |
Names (more)[en] Hano[fr] Hano [pt] Língua raga |
Language type : Living
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