Mele-Fila language
Mele-Fila (Ifira-Mele) is a Polynesian language spoken in Mele and Ifira on the island of Efate in Vanuatu.Mele village, with a population of 1,000, is located roughly 7 km (4.3 mi) north-west of Port Vila, the nation’s capital.[2] Based on archaeological evidence, it is understood that peoples speaking Austronesian languages originated on the island of Taiwan about 6,000 years ago.Some of their descendants formed the Lapita civilisation, who sailed to Remote Oceania, including Vanuatu, roughly 3,200 years ago.[3] The population of Mele-Fila belongs to the Polynesian outliers, who historically came from Central Polynesia (Tonga, Samoa) during the last two millennia.