Lemerig

Lemerig is the least spoken language in the world. Only two remaining humans speak Lemerig.^[2]

Lemerig
Pak, Päk, Sasar
Pronunciation	[lɪmɪˈriɣ]
Native to	Vanuatu
Region	Vanua Lava
Native speakers	2 (2010)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southern Oceanic North-Central Vanuatu North Vanuatu Torres-Banks Lemerig
Dialects	Alo-Teqel, Pak, Sasar
Language codes
ISO 639-3	lrz
Glottolog	leme1238
ELP	Lemerig
Lemerig is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Phonology

Lemerig has 11 phonemic vowels. These are all short monophthongs /i ɪ ɛ æ a œ ø ɒ̝ ɔ ʊ u/.^[3][4]

Lemerig vowels

	Front		Back
	plain	round
Close	i ⟨i⟩		u ⟨u⟩
Near-close	ɪ ⟨ē⟩	ø ⟨ö⟩	ʊ ⟨ō⟩
Open-mid	ɛ ⟨e⟩	œ ⟨ë⟩	ɔ ⟨o⟩
Near-open	æ ⟨ä⟩		ɒ̝ ⟨ā⟩
Open	a ⟨a⟩