Nisvai language
Appearance
(Redirected from Vetbon language)
Nisvai | |
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Vetbon | |
Native to | Vanuatu |
Region | Malekula |
Native speakers | 200 (2001)[1] |
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.[2][1]
The languages surrounding Nisvai include, or used to include, Port Sandwich, Nasvang, Sörsörian, Axamb and Avok.[2]
Name
[edit]The name Nisvai literally means "what".
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- 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.