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 .
21-477: [REDACTED] Look up mota in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mota , MOTA or variations thereof may refer to: Geography [ edit ] Mota (island) , Vanuatu Mota, Ethiopia , a town Mota, Gujarat , India, a town Mota, Ljutomer , Slovenia, a village Music [ edit ] M.O.T.A. (album) , by Cultura Profética, 2005 "Mota",
42-589: A nurse lives, access to teleradio and a public phone on the island. There are also small settlements of Mota people in Santo , especially at Lorevilko and Turtle Bay , and in Port Vila . Proto-Torres%E2%80%93Banks language Proto-Torres-Banks (abbr. PTB ) is the reconstructed ancestor of the seventeen languages of the Torres and Banks Islands of Vanuatu . Like all indigenous languages of Vanuatu , it belongs to
63-434: A part of the early North-Central Vanuatu linkage with some dialectal variation across different island groups, before they eventually disintegrated into mutually unintelligible languages. Elements of the proto-language have been proposed by linguist A. François : vowels and consonants, personal pronouns, space system, vocabulary. Proto-Torres-Banks had 5 phonemic vowels, /i e a o u/, and 16 consonants: Following
84-600: A process of vowel deletion took place whereby every second vowel, being unstressed, was dropped: this resulted in an increase in the number of vowel phonemes – a process known as transphonologization . For example, PTB *laŋi "wind" > HIW [j ɔ ŋ] , MTP Tooltip Mwotlap language [l ɛ ŋ] , giving rise to phonemes /ɔ/ and /ɛ/ respectively. Words which initially had 4 syllables were reduced to 2 syllables (e.g. POc *RapiRapi "evening" > PTB *raβiˈraβi > MSN Tooltip Mwesen language /rɛβrɛβ/ [rɛɸˈrɛɸ] ); *CVCV disyllables were reduced to
105-441: A single CVC syllable (e.g. POc *roŋoR "to hear" > PTB *roŋo > LKN Tooltip Lakon language /rɔŋ/); words with 3 syllables ended up with 2, including *CVCVV which became *CVCV (e.g. POc *panua "island, land" > PTB *βanua > LKN Tooltip Lakon language /βanʊ/). In Mota , only single high vowels were dropped, evident even in the earliest records: e.g. *tolu "three" > /tol/. In
126-643: A song by the Offspring from the album Ixnay on the Hombre , 1997 People [ edit ] Mota (surname) Mota Alhouni (Motasem Alhouni), Libyan professional pickleball player Mota Singh (1930–2016), British judge and the UK's first Asian judge Mota (footballer, born 1980) , João Soares da Mota Neto, Brazilian football striker Mota (footballer, born 1985) . Willis Mota Moreira, Brazilian football goalkeeper Other uses [ edit ] Mota language ,
147-538: Is an adaptation of the local name M̄ota [ŋ͡mʷota] . Cognates in other Torres-Banks languages include Mwotlap Am̄ot [aˈŋ͡mʷɔt] , Vera'a M̄ō'o [ŋ͡mʷʊʔɔ] , and Vurës M̄ot [ŋ͡mʷɔt] . They are all derived from a form * mʷota in Proto-Torres-Banks , referring to the island. The form is possibly cognate with Proto-Polynesian * motu "island", from Proto-Oceanic *motus "broken off, detached". The same root
168-635: Is famous because its language was used by the first missionaries in Melanesia. For the better part of a century from 1849, most teaching in classrooms and schools of all kinds, and most prayers and hymns from Isabel in the Solomons all the way through Pentecost in Vanuatu were done in the language of this small island. Some Mota words are still known throughout the Melanesian archipelago, e.g. tasiu (brother, taken here in
189-600: Is found in Mota Lava , the name of an island north of Mota ‒ etymologically, "big Mota". Mota is located 18 km south of Mota Lava and 12 km east of Vanua Lava , the second-largest island in the Banks archipelago. The slightly oval island has a length of 5 km and has an area of 9.5 km². Mota is formed by an extinct , basaltic volcano , which reaches an altitude of 411 m above sea level in Mount Tawe. The island
210-455: Is generally held to be the first Melanesian island to have become Christian, though missionary work began a year later than on Aneityum . 683 people live on Mota in coastal villages around the island. The names of the villages are Liwotqei , Lotawan , Mariu , Tasmate , Garamal , Tuqetap , and Veverao . The population speaks the Mota language . All Mota people are Christians , Anglicans of
231-555: Is surrounded by a fringing reef, and its steep coast makes it difficult to land on from boats. The climate on the island is humid tropical. The average annual rainfall exceeds 3500 mm. Mota is prone to frequent earthquakes and cyclones. Mota was discovered by the Portuguese navigator Pedro Fernández de Quirós who served for the Spanish expedition on 25 April 1606 and named it Nuestra Señora de la Luz (Our Lady of Light). The island
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#1732851116833252-510: The Church of the Province of Melanesia . The big days of celebration are the saints' days of the church in each village on the island. However, kastom , i.e. the Melanesian traditions, still means a lot to the islanders. Presently, the island is ruled by a council of chiefs elected from each village. There is a school, Pasaleli Primary School , formally named Panel School. There is a dispensary where
273-597: The Oceanic branch of the Austronesian languages . More specifically, it is the shared ancestor of the following modern languages: Hiw , Lo-Toga , Lehali , Löyöp , Volow , Mwotlap , Lemerig , Vera'a , Vurës , Mwesen , Mota , Nume , Dorig , Koro , Olrat , Lakon , and Mwerlap . Proto-Torres-Banks, as reconstructed with the comparative method from the attested daughter languages , evidently represented an early, mutually intelligible chain of Oceanic dialects in
294-420: The 1880s, Codrington reported cases when Mota had preserved high vowels (e.g. /siwo/ "down"; /tolu/ "three"), which have since disappeared from today's Mota (e.g. /swo/; /tol/). In Hiw , Lo-Toga and Vera'a , the final vowel was retained as a schwa when it was originally lower than the one under stress: e.g. POc *ikan "fish" > PTB *íɣa > HIW /ɪɣə/, LTG /iɣə/. In Vera'a,
315-463: The first vowel tends to be deleted or copied after the second vowel, with the exception of Mota and Lakon , which preserve them. Stress fell on the penultimate syllable. Due to the pervasive loss of final vowels, descendant languages usually have stress on the final syllable. Vera'a and Mota have lost stress entirely. In all of the descendant languages except for Mota , vowel hybridization occurred (a form of metaphony or umlaut ). Later,
336-488: The language spoken in the island of Mota Mota (butterfly) , a genus of butterflies including Mota massyla MotA , a bacterial protein and gene MOTA (motorcycles) , a German motorcycle brand Masters of the Air , a 2024 American war drama miniseries See also [ edit ] Motta (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
357-542: The loss of final POc consonants (or dialectal addition of a paragogic vowel), syllable structure in Proto-Torres-Banks was open , i.e. (C)V with optional consonant: e.g. POc *uraŋ "crayfish" > PTB *ura / *uraŋi ; POc *matiruʀ "to sleep" > PTB *matiru ; POc *laŋit "sky" > PTB *laŋi "wind". No descendant language preserves this situation today, but it can still be found in other related languages such as Gela and Uneapa . In trisyllabic words,
378-536: The northern part of Vanuatu starting from 1000 BCE after Lapita settlement of the archipelago, as evidenced by the pattern of loss and retention of the Proto-Oceanic phoneme *R , which merged with *r in the early history of the North-Central Vanuatu dialect chain. It therefore is not a "true" proto-language in the sense of an undifferentiated language ancestral to all Torres–Banks languages , but rather
399-516: The religious sense of "member of a brotherhood" i.e. the Melanesian Brotherhood ) The Anglican missionary, anthropologist and later Fellow of Wadham College , R. H. Codrington , lived on Mota and mastered its language. John Coleridge Patteson was also based there in the village of Veverao. The first Melanesian priest, Father George Sarawia , was from Mota, and the first Christian baptisms and Eucharist and Confirmations were there. Mota
420-2043: The schwa became an echo vowel , e.g. POc *pulan "moon" > PTB *βula > *βulə > VRA /fulʊ/; that final vowel in Vera'a can disappear in phrase-medial position, yielding the form /ful/ for 'moon'. (2) *niᵑgo > LTG Tooltip Lo-Toga language /nikə/, LHI Tooltip Lehali language /nɛk/, LYP Tooltip Löyöp language /niŋ/, VLW Tooltip Volow language /nɪŋ/, MTP Tooltip Mwotlap language /nɪk/, LMG Tooltip Lemerig language /næk/, VRA Tooltip Vera'a language /nikɪ/, VRS Tooltip Vurës language /nɪk/, MSN Tooltip Mwesen language /nɪk/, MTA Tooltip Mota language /niko/, NUM Tooltip Nume language /nik/, DRG Tooltip Dorig language /nɪk/, KRO Tooltip Koro language (Vanuatu) /nɪk/, OLR Tooltip Olrat language /nɪk/, LKN Tooltip Lakon language /nɪk/, MRL Tooltip Mwerlap language /nɛ͡ak/ (2) *suwo > HIW Tooltip Hiw language /ʉw/, LHI Tooltip Lehali language /hɔw/, LYP Tooltip Löyöp language /sʊw/, VLW Tooltip Volow language /hʊ/, MTP Tooltip Mwotlap language /hʊw/, LMG Tooltip Lemerig language /sʊw/, VRA Tooltip Vera'a language /suwʊ/, VRS Tooltip Vurës language /sʊw/, MSN Tooltip Mwesen language /sʊw/, LKN Tooltip Lakon language /hʊw/, MRL Tooltip Mwerlap language /sʊw/ The historical sound changes that took place from Proto-Oceanic (POc) to Proto-Torres-Banks (PTB) were intricate, yet largely regular. Some have been reconstructed explicitly, whether on vowels or on consonants; others are implicit in published lists of PTB lexical reconstructions. Pervasive phonological sound changes include: Considering each POc proto-phoneme sequentially,
441-494: The title Mota . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mota&oldid=1254628272 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Mota (island) The name Mota
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