Vai

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Vai

Summary

Vai is a natural language[1]. Vai draws 91 Wikipedia views per month (natural_language category, ranking #284 of 734).[2]

Key Facts

  • Vai is in the country of Liberia[3].
  • Vai is in the country of Sierra Leone[4].
  • Vai's instance of is recorded as natural language[5].
  • Vai's instance of is recorded as modern language[6].
  • Vai is a type of Mande[7].
  • Vai's writing system is recorded as Vai syllabary[8].
  • Vai's Commons category is recorded as Vai script[9].
  • Vai's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Vai language[10].
  • Vai's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'vai', 'text': 'ꕙꔤ'}[11].
  • Vai's indigenous to is recorded as Bomi County[12].
  • Vai's indigenous to is recorded as Grand Cape Mount County[13].
  • Vai's indigenous to is recorded as Southern Province[14].
  • Vai's has phoneme is recorded as close back rounded vowel[15].
  • Vai's has phoneme is recorded as close front unrounded vowel[16].
  • Vai's has phoneme is recorded as close-mid back rounded vowel[17].
  • Vai's has phoneme is recorded as close-mid front unrounded vowel[18].
  • Vai's has phoneme is recorded as open front unrounded vowel[19].
  • Vai's has phoneme is recorded as open-mid front unrounded vowel[20].
  • Vai's has phoneme is recorded as open-mid back rounded vowel[21].
  • Vai's has phoneme is recorded as voiced alveolar fricative[22].
  • Vai's has phoneme is recorded as voiced alveolar implosive[23].
  • Vai's has phoneme is recorded as voiced alveolar lateral approximant[24].
  • Vai's has phoneme is recorded as voiced alveolar nasal[25].
  • Vai's has phoneme is recorded as voiced alveolar stop[26].
  • Vai's has phoneme is recorded as voiced alveolar trill[27].

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Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include natural language[5] and modern language[6]. Vai is a type of Mande[7].

Why It Matters

Vai draws 91 Wikipedia views per month (natural_language category, ranking #284 of 734).[2] Vai has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Vai is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 17d ago · MarisDreshmanisBot bot · 2026-05-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country Liberia, Sierra Leone
    Ethnologue language status 5 Developing
    Has phoneme close back rounded vowel, close front unrounded vowel, close-mid back rounded vowel +27
    Subclass of Mande
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||pt, kv, tr, ru, ja, ha, sw, ast, vi, oc, fi, ig, pl */ Add 13 multilingual descriptions extracted from Wikipedia article first sentences (universal multilingu"
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