Mota
Mota 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Torba, Vanuatu
- Also known as: “Île Mota”, “Île Pain de Sucre”, “Motrig”, and “Sugarloaf Island”
Mota
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Western Mari—“Mota” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Mota”
- Cebuano: “Mota”
- Chinese: “莫塔島”
- Dutch: “Mota”
- Egyptian Arabic: “موتا”
- French: “Mota”
- French: “Sugar Loaf Island”
- French: “Sugarloaf Island”
- Galician: “Mota, Vanuatu”
- Georgian: “მოტა”
- German: “Mota”
- Italian: “Mota”
- Italian: “Sugarloaf Island”
- Japanese: “モタ島”
- Macedonian: “Мота (остров)”
- Macedonian: “Мота”
- Portuguese: “Mota (ilha)”
- Portuguese: “Mota”
- Russian: “Мота”
- Spanish: “Mota”
- Swahili: “Mota”
- Ukrainian: “Мота”
- Western Mari: “Мота”
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