Uripiv is a small inhabited island in
Malampa Province
Malampa is one of the six provinces of Vanuatu, located in the center of the country. It consists of three main islands: Malakula, Ambrym and Paama, and takes its name from the first syllable of their names. It includes a number of other islands â ...
of
Vanuatu
Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (; ), is an island country in Melanesia located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, east o ...
in the Pacific Ocean. Uripiv lies off the north coast of
Malekula Island. The estimated terrain elevation above the sea level is some 8 meters.
Population
As of 2015, the official population of the island was 351 people in 76 households.
Local people speak
Uripiv language, a dialect of the language spoken on the north-east coast of
Malakula
Malakula, also spelled Malekula, is the second-largest island in the nation of Vanuatu, formerly the New Hebrides, in Melanesia, a region of the Pacific Ocean.
Location
Malakula is separated from the islands of Espiritu Santo and Malo Island, Ma ...
. The language is referred to as Northeast Malakula or Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin, and is spoken on the islands of Uripiv,
Wala,
Rano, and
Atchin and on the mainland opposite to these islands.
References
Islands of Vanuatu
Malampa Province
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