Ti pagsasao a Mwotlap (maibalikas a kas [ŋ͡mʷɔtˈlap]; dati nga ammo a kas Motlav) ket ti maysa a pagsasao nga Oceaniko nga insasao babaen dagiti agarup at 2,100 a tattao idiay Vanuatu. Kaaduan dagiti agsasao ket mabirukan iti isla ti Motalava iti Is-isla Banks,[2] ken adda met dagiti basbassit a komunidad iti is-isla ti Ra (wenn Aya) ken Vanua Lava,[3] ken dgaiti pay grupo ti migrante kadagiti dua a nangruna a siudad ti pagilian, Santo ken Puerto Vila.
Immuna a naipalawag ti Mwotlap idi 2001, babaen ni Alexandre François ti maysa a lingguista.
Ti Volow, a naisasao idi iti isu met laeng nga isla, ket mabalin a maikeddeng a dialekto wenno sabali a pagsasao.
François, Alexandre (2004), "Chains of freedom: Constraints and creativity in the macro-verb strategies of Mwotlap", iti Bril, Isabelle; Ozanne-Rivierre, Françoise (dagiti ed.), Complex predicates in Oceanic languages: Studies in the dynamics of binding and boundness, Empirical Approaches to Language Typology, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 107–143
François, Alexandre (2006), "Serial verb constructions in Mwotlap", iti Dixon, R.M.W.; Aikhenvald, Alexandra (dagiti ed.), Serial Verb Constructions: A cross-linguistic typology, Explorations in Linguistic Typology, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 223–238
François, Alexandre (2007), "Noun articles in Torres and Banks languages: Conservation and innovation", iti Siegel, Jeff; Lynch, John; Eades, Diana (dagiti ed.), Language Description, History and Development: Linguistic indulgence in memory of Terry Crowley, Creole Language Library 30, Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 313–326