Ngen language

Ngen
	Shark Bay
Native to	Vanuatu
Region	Litaro (Pilot) Island, Shark Bay coast
Ethnicity	spoken by 40% (no date)[1]
Native speakers	450 (2001)[2]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southern Oceanic Northern Vanuatu East Santo South Ngen; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ssv
Glottolog	shar1244[3]

Ngen, or Shark Bay, is one of the East Santo languages group of languages. It is spoken on Espiritu Santo in Vanuatu. It has about 450 speakers. It is close to Lorediakarkar.

References

Ngen language at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
Ngen at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ngen". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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[e15-1] Ngen language at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)

[e18-2] Ngen at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-3] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ngen". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.