Ura language (Vanuatu)

Ura
Native toVanuatu
RegionErromango
Native speakers
(6 cited 1998)
Language codes
ISO 639-3uur
Glottologurav1235
ELPUra (Vanuatu)
Ura is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Ura is a moribund language of the island Erromango in Vanuatu. It was thought to be extinct, after massive depopulation of the island in the nineteenth century, until Terry Crowley discovered a handful of elderly speakers in the 1990s.