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Mota (island)

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Mota (island)

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Mota (formerly Sugarloaf Island) is an island in the Banks group of northern Vanuatu. Its population – today about 700 people – speak the Mota language, which Christian missionaries of the Anglican Church used as a lingua franca in parts of Melanesia.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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