Port Sandwich language

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.[3]

Port Sandwich
Lamap
Native toVanuatu
RegionMalekula
Native speakers
1,200 (2001)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3psw
Glottologport1285[2]

Nisvai is a separate language.[4]

References

  1. Port Sandwich at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Port Sandwich". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Charpentier, Jean-Michel (1979). La langue de Port-Sandwich (Nouvelles-Hébrides): introduction phonologique et grammaire. SELAF. Paris: Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale. p. 208. ISBN 9782852970564. Retrieved 28 Nov 2014.
  4. Lynch, John & Terry Crowley. 2001. Languages of Vanuatu: A new survey and bibliography. Canberra: Australian National University.


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