The Malakula languages are a group of Central Vanuatu languages spoken on Malakula Island in central Vanuatu.
Unlike some earlier classifications, linguist and Oceanic languages specialist John Lynch (2016) considered the Malakula languages to form a coherent group.
[1] One distinctive feature of the Malakula languages is the pervasive loss of unstressed syllables.
[2] Lynch (2016) divides the Malakula languages into three primary subgroups, namely Northern, Eastern, and Western, all three of which are linkages.
The positions of the Sörsörian, Rerep, Vivti, and Nitita languages were not addressed.