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<h2 id="name">Name</h2> <p>The name <i>Aplow</i> [apˈlʊw] is the name of the village in <a href="/facts/Mwotlap/Wl5grK0K">Mwotlap</a>, which is the dominant language spoken today on the island. The same village was originally known as <i>Volow</i> [βʊˈlʊw] in the now extinct <a href="/facts/Volow/caMEWHjm">language of the same name</a>. </p><p>Finally, the village, as well as the district around it, is called in <a href="/facts/Mota_language/SI9UgkBd">Mota</a> as <i>Valuwa</i> [βaluwa] (from the Maligo dialect) or <i>Valuga</i> [βaluɣa] (from the Veverao dialect). The form <i>Valua</i> is a misspelling of the Maligo dialect form. </p><p>All these forms descend from a reconstructed <i>*βaluwa</i> in <a href="/facts/Proto-Torres%25E2%2580%2593Banks_language/dnftjzGq">Proto-Torres-Banks</a>, e.g. <i>*βaˈluwa</i> > [βʊlʊw]. The Mwotlap form incorporates a locative prefix: *<i>ˌa-βaˈluwa</i> > *aβˈlʊw > [apˈlʊw]. </p> <h2 id="notes">Notes</h2> <ul><li>François, Alexandre (2012), <a href="https://marama.huma-num.fr/data/AlexFrancois_2012_NorthVanuatuSocioling_IJSL.pdf">"The dynamics of linguistic diversity: Egalitarian multilingualism and power imbalance among northern Vanuatu languages"</a> (PDF), <i>International Journal of the Sociology of Language</i>, 214: 85–110, <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1515%2Fijsl-2012-0022">10.1515/ijsl-2012-0022</a></li></ul> <p><a href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Aplow¶ms=13_40_18_S_167_42_27_E_type:city_region:VU">13°40′18″S 167°42′27″E / 13.67167°S 167.70750°E / -13.67167; 167.70750</a> </p> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>François (2012:88) - François, Alexandre (2012), "The dynamics of linguistic diversity: Egalitarian multilingualism and power imbalance among northern Vanuatu languages" (PDF), International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 214: 85–110, doi:10.1515/ijsl-2012-0022 <a href="https://marama.huma-num.fr/data/AlexFrancois_2012_NorthVanuatuSocioling_IJSL.pdf" target="_blank">https://marama.huma-num.fr/data/AlexFrancois_2012_NorthVanuatuSocioling_IJSL.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>