Aplow
| Aplow Valuwa |
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| Coordinates | 13 ° 40 ′ S , 167 ° 42 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Vanuatu | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | VU | ||
Aplow (also: Ablow aplʊw , Valuwa ) is a village and a settlement area on the east side of Motalava Island in the Banks Islands of Vanuatu .
geography
The place is located in the eastern coastal plain, north of Mota Lava Airport (Valua airport).
In addition to the village, the name Aplow also describes the larger area around the place up to the entire east side of the island in contrast to Mwotlap , which denotes the western half of the island of Motalava.
Surname
In the area of Aplow a Kommunalect (language or dialect) was spoken until the 1980s, which was called Volow . But the language died out because the locals prevailing in the western part of the island language Mwotlap assumptions . Aplow is the place name in the Mwotlap. In the Volow language the place was originally called Volow βʊlʊw .
The term Valuwa βaluwa (or Valua ), which is occasionally encountered, comes from the Mota language from the neighboring island of Mota , which missionaries used to be the lingua franca of the entire region.
Individual evidence
- ↑ geonames.org .
- ^ François, "The dynamics of linguistic diversity: Egalitarian multilingualism and power imbalance among northern Vanuatu languages" 2012: 88.
literature
- Alexandre François: The dynamics of linguistic diversity: Egalitarian multilingualism and power imbalance among northern Vanuatu languages. In: International Journal of the Sociology of Language , 2012 vol. 214, pp. 85-110. doi: 10.1515 / ijsl-2012-0022