Language Family

Torres-Banks languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

The Torres-Banks languages form a linkage of Southern Oceanic languages spoken in the Torres Islands and Banks Islands of northern Vanuatu.

Facts

Region

Torres Islands and Banks Islands, Torba Province, northern Vanuatu 2

Speaker Count

9400 2

Proto-Language Status

Proto-Torres-Banks, viewed as a mutually-intelligible chain of dialects 2

Browse and compare

Classification Confidence

Established 1

Reconstructed Ancestor

Reconstructed 2

Compare

Number of Languages

14 1

In the Other Atlases

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Sources

1. Glottolog: Torres-Banks linkage (languoid record)

Glottolog

Languoid record: child_language_count
"child_language_count": 14
Languoid record: level and category
"level": "family", "bookkeeping": false, "category": "Family"

2. Wikipedia: Torres-Banks languages

Infobox, region
Torres Islands and Banks Islands, Torba Province, northern Vanuatu
Languages
spoken by 9,400 people
Proto-language
The common ancestor of all Torres-Banks languages is called
Infobox: protoname
Proto-Torres-Banks

Switch Atlas