37.2913, TOC: Te Reo – The Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand 68 / 2 (2025)

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Date: 14-Sep-2026
From: Victoria Chen [victoria.chen at vuw.ac.nz]
Subject: Te Reo – The Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand Vol. 68, No. 2 (2025)


Publisher: The Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand
https://nzlingsoc.org/journal/about-the-journal-te-reo/

Journal Title: Te Reo – The Journal of the Linguistic Society of New
Zealand
Volume Number: 68
Issue Number: 2
Issue Date: 2025
https://nzlingsoc.org/journal/current-issue/?journal_volumes=319#form-journal-article-filter

Subtitle: Vanuatu languages in context

Main Text:

Te Reo 68(2) Special Issue: Vanuatu languages in context
(Guest editors: Tihomir Rangelov, Eleanor Ridge, Lana Takau, Victoria
Chen)
Introduction to the three Special Issues on Vanuatu languages
Tihomir Rangelov, Eleanor Ridge & Lana Takau | pp. 1–6
Introdaksen long trifala Spesel Isiu wetem ol samari long Bislama
Lana Takau, Tihomir Rangelov & Eleanor Ridge | pp. 7–26
Introduction: Vanuatu languages in context
Eleanor Ridge, Tihomir Rangelov & Lana Takau | pp. 27–30
Linguistics in Vanuatu 45 years after Independence
Tihomir Rangelov, Eleanor Ridge & Lana Takau | pp. 31–78
Language shift in Vanuatu’s 2020 census: Investigation of a national
dataset for 250,000 people
Guy Lavender Forsyth | pp. 79–113
Do dominant languages affect linguistic diversity in Vanuatu? A call
for further research
Marie-France Duhamel| pp. 114–132
What does lanwis mean? Parallels between Indigenous languages of
Vanuatu for young people in Mele Maat
Eleanor Ridge | pp. 133–161
Signs of Deaf ni-Vanuatu: A sociolinguistic study
Jacqueline Iseli & Rachel McKee | pp. 162–185
Language ecosystems in Western Santo
Allan Taman, Sabrina Taman & Tihomir Rangelov | pp. 186–245
Efate and Shepherd Islands language ecology
Noémie Severin | pp. 246–291
Efatic: Toward a history
Ross Clark | pp. 292–312
Book review of Durand et al. (2024) Le Vanuatu dans tous ses états.
Histoire et anthropologie.
Sandrine Bessis & Aristotelis Giannakos | pp. 313–318

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Pragmatics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Akei (tsr, akei1237)
                     Eton (Vanuatu) (etn, eton1255)
                     Koro (Vanuatu) (krf, koro1308)
                     Seke (Vanuatu) (ske, seke1241)
                     Ura (Vanuatu) (uur, urav1235)

Language Family(ies): Austronesian (aust1307)
                      Central Vanuatu (cent2269)
                      East Vanuatu
                      North and Central Vanuatu (nort3195)
                      Southern Vanuatu (sout2868)



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