The original homeland of the Tirax speakers is the mountainous interior of North Central Malakula, neighbouring Big Nambas.

As the Tirax speakers embraced Christianity in the early twentieth century, they began to migrate towards the east coast, where they founded the villages of Mae, Rori and Bethel.

[3] Dirak is the name used to refer to Tirax in John Lynch and Terry Crowley’s 2001, Languages of Vanuatu: A New Survey and Bibliography.

The apicolabials are no longer part of the Tirax phoneme system, but have recently shifted to their dental consonant counterparts.

[7] And there are a small set of circumstances in which story events are related out of chronological order, which runs counter to traditional theories of narrative.