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Annotated bibliography of Vanuatu languages  (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/VAN/vanlangs.html)
This is an HTML version of selections from a book written by John Lynch and produced in 1994 by the Pacific Information Centre and University of the South Pacific Library in Suva, Fiji. It is intended to give some very general information about work done on languages of Vanuatu.

English in the South Pacific  (http://www.vanuatu.usp.ac.fj/paclangunit/English%5FSouth%5FPacific.htm))
Part of the Pacific Languages Unit's web site, this page provides an article by John Lynch and France Mugler about the use of English in Melanesia and Polynesia.

Ethnologue report for Vanuatu  (http://www.ethnologue.com/show%5Fcountry.asp?name=Vanuatu)
Site maintained by Ethnologue. Highlights the spoken living languages of Vanuatu.

Polynesian Languages and Literature Group  (http://www.ling.su.se/pollinet/index.html)
This is the web site of the Polynesian Language and Literature Group at the Linguistic Department at the University of Stockholm. The site contains linguistic information about Polynesian languages including Emae, West Futunan and Mele-Fila that are spoken in Vanuatu.

Vanuatu languages  (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/VAN/vanlangs.html#start)
This web site contains an annotated bibliography of Vanuatu languages. There are listings pertaining to languages in various parts of the country as well as general works on the languages of Vanuatu and on Bislama, the variety of Melanesian Pidgin spoken throughout Vanuatu.

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