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|name=Mota |states=Vanuatu |region=Mota island |speakers=750 |date=2012 |ref=[1] |familycolor=Austronesian |fam2=Malayo-Polynesian |fam3=Oceanic |fam4=Southern Oceanic |fam5=Vanuatu |fam6=Northern Vanuatu |fam7=East Vanuatu |iso3=mtt |glotto=mota1237 |glottorefname=Mota }}Mota is an Oceanic language spoken by about 750 people on Mota island, in the Banks Islands of Vanuatu.[2] HistoryDuring the period 1840-1940, Mota was used as a missionary lingua franca throughout areas of Oceania included in the Melanesian Mission, an Anglican missionary agency.[3] Mota was used on Norfolk Island, in religious education; on other islands with different vernacular languages, it served as the language of liturgical prayers, hymns, and some other religious purposes. Elizabeth Fairburn Colenso translated religious material into the language.[3] Robert Henry Codrington compiled the first dictionary of Mota (1896), and worked with George Sarawia and others to produce a large number of early publications in this language. PhonologyMota has 5 phonemic vowels, /i e a o u/.[4]
Notes1. ^François (2012): 88). 2. ^Linguistic map of north Vanuatu, showing range of Mota. 3. ^1 {{cite web| last =Transcribed by the Right Reverend Dr. Terry Brown | title=ELIZABETH COLENSO: Her work for the Melanesian Mission; by her eldest granddaughter Francis Edith Swabey 1956|website=|date=2007|url= http://anglicanhistory.org/oceania/colenso1956.html|accessdate=5 December 2015}} 4. ^{{Harvcoltxt|François|2005|pp=445, 460}}. References
|doi= |last=Codrington |first=Robert H. |last2=Palmer |first2=Jim |year=1896 |title=A Dictionary of the Language of Mota, Sugarloaf Island, Banks' Islands, with a short grammar and index |location=London |publisher=Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryoflang00codruoft }}
|doi=10.1353/ol.2005.0034 |last=François |first=Alexandre |year=2005 |title=Unraveling the history of the vowels of seventeen northern Vanuatu languages |journal=Oceanic Linguistics |volume=44 |issue=2 |pages=443–504 |url=http://alex.francois.free.fr/data/AlexFrancois_VowelsNorthernVanuatu_OL44-2.pdf }}
|last=François |first=Alexandre |year=2012 |title=The dynamics of linguistic diversity: Egalitarian multilingualism and power imbalance among northern Vanuatu languages |journal=International Journal of the Sociology of Language |volume=214 |issue=214 |doi=10.1515/ijsl-2012-0022 |pages=85–110 |url=https://anu.academia.edu/AlexFran%C3%A7ois/Papers/1525506/The_dynamics_of_linguistic_diversity_Egalitarian_multilingualism_and_power_imbalance_among_northern_Vanuatu_languages |ref=AF-diversity }} External links
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