Vanuatu

Bislama, the official language of Vanuatu, has been added to the list of Pacific Language Weeks to be celebrated.

Vanuatu Bislama Lanwis Wik - Vanuatu Bislama Language Week

Celebrate: 26 July - 1 August 2026

The 2026 theme for Vanuatu Bislama Language Week is "Tokbaot klaemet jenis – Hemi tru samting mo yumi mas lukaotem gud laef" - Talk about climate change – it is real, and we must look after life.

More resources for Vanuatu Language Week provided by MPP here.

Week long celebrations planned for the Bay of Plenty

Find out how the Baslama language came about and the 45 years of Vanuatu's Independence!

Year 5 - 13

Literacy Learner Slides to go with Bay of Plenty Article above

Baslama Language Week

More useful phrases

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Vanuatu Language Week Resource for 2026 from our RTLB Cluster 12. Tangkyu tumas Fetū o le Moana team!

Te Huinga Raukura ki Manurewa - RTLB Cluster 12

2026 Vanuatu Language Week Presentation

Vanuatu Teenager Challenges the World on Climate Change

Historic legal movement that reached the UN’s highest court — the International Court of Justice!

Pacific kids learn survival through nursery rhymes

Article on this found here

Te Papa NZ Museum

Celebrates our first ever Vanuatu Language Week

Vanuatu Food and Dance

A young person of Vanuate takes you on a tour

Frieda from Vanuatu — thecoconet.tv - The world’s largest hub of Pacific Island content.uuFrieda is from Tanna, an island in Vanuatu. Watch as she shows us how to make Lap Lap, the national food of Vanuatu, and shows us traditional dances and her father Daniel tells us about the Banyon tree.

Island Eating: Vanuatu Food — thecoconet.tv - The world’s largest hub of Pacific Island content.uuWe sent our roving foodie Crystal Vaega to Vanuatu to check out the sights, smells and tasts of Vanuatu! Whether you like local delicacies made with all local and organic produce, or the fancy french-inspired cuisine like escargo, there's something for EVERYONE in Vanuatu!

How to speak Bislama — thecoconet.tv - The world’s largest hub of Pacific Island content.uuBislama (pronounced bish-lama) is a pidgin language in Vanuatu. Created in the 1800’s when the native people worked on plantations, the various languages among them formed to create Bislama, now an official language of Vanuatu.