| Nisvai | |
|---|---|
| Vetbon | |
| Native to | Vanuatu |
| Region | Malekula |
| Native speakers | 200 (2001) |
| Language family | Austronesian |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | nisv1234 |
| ELP | Nisvai |
 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.
The languages surrounding Nisvai include, or used to include, Port Sandwich, Nasvang, Sörsörian, Axamb and Avok.
Name
The name Nisvai literally means "what".
References
- ^ Lynch, John & Terry Crowley. 2001. Languages of Vanuatu: A new survey and bibliography. Canberra: Australian National University.
- ^ 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.
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