Port Sandwich language

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Port Sandwich, or Lamap, is an Oceanic language spoken in southeast Malekula, Vanuatu, on the eastern tip of the island. It was first described in 1979 by French linguist Jean-Michel Charpentier.[2]

Port Sandwich
Lamap
Native toVanuatu
RegionMalekula
Native speakers
1,200 (2001)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3psw
Glottologport1285
ELPPort Sandwich
Port Sandwich is not endangered according to the classification system of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Nisvai is a separate language.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Port Sandwich at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Charpentier, Jean-Michel (1979). La langue de Port-Sandwich (Nouvelles-Hébrides): introduction phonologique et grammaire. SELAF (in French). Paris: Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale. p. 208. ISBN 9782852970564. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
  3. ^ Lynch, John; Crowley, Terry (2001). Languages of Vanuatu: A New Survey and Bibliography. Pacific Linguistics 517. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. doi:10.15144/PL-517. hdl:1885/146135. ISBN 0-85883-469-3.
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