Port Sandwich | |
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Lamap | |
Native to | Vanuatu |
Region | Malekula |
Native speakers | 1,200 (2001) [1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
psw |
Glottolog |
port1285 |
ELP | Port Sandwich |
Port Sandwich is not endangered according to the classification system of the
UNESCO
Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger |
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]
Nisvai is a separate language. [3]
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Indigenous languages ( Southern Oceanic and Polynesian) |
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