Nisvai language
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| Nisvai | |
|---|---|
| Vetbon | |
| Native to | Vanuatu |
| Region | Malekula |
Native speakers | 200 (2001)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | nisv1234 |
| File:Lang Status 20-CR.svg Nisvai is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Nisvai is an Oceanic language spoken in southeast Malekula, Vanuatu, on the eastern tip of the island, by about 200 speakers.[2][1] The languages surrounding Nisvai include, or used to include, Port Sandwich, Nasvang, Sörsörian, Axamb and Avok.[2]
Name
The name Nisvai literally means "what".
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lynch, John & Terry Crowley. 2001. Languages of Vanuatu: A new survey and bibliography. Canberra: Australian National University.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Charpentier, Jean-Michel (1982). Atlas linguistique du Sud - Malekula—Linguistic Atlas of South Malekula (Vanuatu). Paris: Centre National de la Recherche.
External links
- Nisvai DoReCo corpus compiled by Jocelyn Aznar. Audio recordings of narrative texts with transcriptions time-aligned at the phone level, translations, and time-aligned morphological annotations.