Dorig language

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Austronesian language spoken in Vanuatu

title: "Dorig language" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["languages-of-vanuatu", "banks–torres-languages", "torba-province", "definitely-endangered-languages"] description: "Austronesian language spoken in Vanuatu" topic_path: "linguistics" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorig_language" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Austronesian language spoken in Vanuatu ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox language"]

Field	Value
name	Dorig
nativename	Dōrig
pronunciation
states	Vanuatu
region	Gaua
speakers	300
date	2012
ref
familycolor	Austronesian
fam2	Malayo-Polynesian
fam3	Oceanic
fam4	Southern Oceanic
fam5	North-Central Vanuatu
fam6	North Vanuatu
fam7	Torres-Banks
iso3	wwo
glotto	weta1242
glottorefname	Dorig
map	Lang Status 60-DE.svg
mapcaption
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Dorig (formerly called Wetamut) is a threatened Oceanic language spoken on Gaua island in Vanuatu.

The language's 300 speakers live mostly in the village of Dorig , on the south coast of Gaua. Smaller speaker communities can be found in the villages of Qteon (east coast) and Qtevut (west coast).

Dorig's immediate neighbours are Koro and Mwerlap.

Name

The name Dorig is derived from the name of the village where it is spoken.

Phonology

Dorig has eight phonemic vowels. These include seven short monophthongs and one long vowel . ::data[format=table title="Dorig vowels"]

	Front	Back	Close	Near-close	Open-mid	Open



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Dorig has 15 consonant phonemes. ::data[format=table title="Dorig consonants"]

Labiovelar	Bilabial	Alveolar	Dorsal	Voiceless stop	Prenasalized stop	Nasal	Fricative	Rhotic	Lateral	Approximant



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The phonotactic template for a syllable in Dorig is: — e.g. ‘woman’ ( *wərítə .

Grammar

The system of personal pronouns in Dorig contrasts clusivity, and distinguishes four numbers (singular, dual, trial, plural).

Spatial reference is based on a system of geocentric (absolute) directionals, which is typical of Oceanic languages.

References

Bibliography

{{citation |doi=10.1353/ol.2005.0034 |last=François |first=Alexandre |author-link = Alexandre François (linguist) |year=2005 |title=Unraveling the history of the vowels of seventeen northern Vanuatu languages |journal=Oceanic Linguistics |volume=44 |issue=2 |pages=443–504 |s2cid=131668754 |url=https://marama.huma-num.fr/data/AlexFrancois_VowelsNorthernVanuatu_OL44-2.pdf
{{citation |doi=10.1017/s0952675710000205 |last=François |first=Alexandre |author-mask= 2 |year=2010 |title=Phonotactics and the prestopped velar lateral of Hiw: Resolving the ambiguity of a complex segment |journal=Phonology |volume=27 |issue=3 |pages=393–434 |url=https://marama.huma-num.fr/data/AlexFrancois_Hiw-lateral_Phonology_published.pdf
{{citation |last=François |first=Alexandre |author-mask= 2 |year=2011 |title=Social ecology and language history in the northern Vanuatu linkage: A tale of divergence and convergence |journal=Journal of Historical Linguistics |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=175–246 |doi=10.1075/jhl.1.2.03fra |url=https://marama.huma-num.fr/data/AlexFrancois_2011_JHL1-2_Social-ecology_Vanuatu.pdf |ref=ecology |hdl=1885/29283 |hdl-access=free
{{citation |last=François |first=Alexandre |author-mask= 2 |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= |doi=10.1515/ijsl-2012-0022 |pages=85–110 |s2cid=145208588 |url=https://marama.huma-num.fr/data/AlexFrancois_2012_NorthVanuatuSocioling_IJSL.pdf |ref=AF-diversity
{{Cite book | publisher = Asia-Pacific Linguistics | isbn = 978-1-922185-23-5 | pages = 137–195 |editor= Alexandre François |editor2=Sébastien Lacrampe |editor3=Michael Franjieh |editor4=Stefan Schnell | last = François | first = Alexandre |author-mask= 2 | title = The languages of Vanuatu: Unity and diversity | chapter = The ins and outs of up and down: Disentangling the nine geocentric space systems of Torres and Banks languages | location = Canberra | series = Studies in the Languages of Island Melanesia | url = http://hdl.handle.net/1885/14819 | contribution-url= https://marama.huma-num.fr/data/AlexFrancois_2015_North-Vanuatu-space-directionals.pdf | date = 2015 | hdl = 1885/14819 | ref = updown }}
{{citation |last=François |first=Alexandre |author-mask= 2 |year=2016 |contribution = The historical morphology of personal pronouns in northern Vanuatu |editor1-last = Pozdniakov |editor1-first = Konstantin |title = Comparatisme et reconstruction : tendances actuelles |volume = 47 |pages = 25–60 |publisher = Peter Lang |place = Bern |series = Faits de Langues |contribution-url= https://marama.huma-num.fr/data/AlexFrancois_2016_History-personal-pronouns_north-Vanuatu_s.pdf |ref=pronouns
{{cite web |url=https://pangloss.cnrs.fr/corpus/Dorig?lang=en&mode=pro&seeMore=true |title=Presentation of the Dorig language, and audio archive |last=François |first=Alexandre |author-mask= 2 |date=2022 |website=Pangloss Collection |location=Paris |publisher=CNRS |access-date=28 Sep 2022 |quote= |ref=pangloss}}

References

{{Harvcoltxt. François. 2012
[https://marama.huma-num.fr/AF-field.htm#Vanuatu List of Banks islands languages].
{{Harvcoltxt. François. 2005
[[#pangloss. François (2022)]].
{{Harvcoltxt. François. 2010
{{Harvcoltxt. François. 2010
[[#pronouns. François (2016)]].
[[#updown. François (2015)]].

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