| Northeast Malakula | |
| Also Known As: | Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin |
| States: | Vanuatu |
| Region: | Malakula |
| Speakers: | 9,000 |
| Date: | 2001 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Austronesian |
| Fam3: | Oceanic |
| Fam4: | Southern Oceanic |
| Fam5: | North-Central Vanuatu |
| Fam6: | Central Vanuatu |
| Fam7: | Malakula |
| Fam8: | Malakula Coastal |
| Iso3: | upv |
| Glotto: | urip1239 |
| Glottorefname: | Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin |
| Map: | Lang Status 99-NE.svg |
Northeast Malakula, or Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin, is a dialect chain spoken on the islands of Uripiv, Wala, Rano, and Atchin and on the mainland opposite to these islands. Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin is spoken today by about 9,000 people. Literacy rate of its speakers in their own language is 10–30%.
Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin forms a dialect chain. The Uripiv dialect is the most southerly of these and has 85% of its words in common with Atchin, the most northerly dialect. Uripiv is spoken on the north-east coast of Malakula.
The Uripiv dialect is one of the few documented languages that use the rare bilabial trill, a feature that is not found in the Atchin dialect.
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | lab. | ||||||
| Plosive/ Affricate | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |
| prenasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Fricative | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Tap | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Trill | voiced | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| prenasal | pronounced as /link/ | (pronounced as /link/) | |||||
| Lateral | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Labial | Alveolar | Velar | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | lab. | |||||
| Plosive | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |
| prenasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Affricate | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Fricative | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Trill | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Lateral | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Close | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Open | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Close | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close-mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Open-mid | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Open | pronounced as /link/ |