Nese (linguistics)
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| Nese | ||
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| Spoken in: | Matanvat area, northwest Malakula, Vanuatu | |
| Total speakers: | 20 | |
| Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central-Eastern Eastern Oceanic Central-Eastern Remote North-central Vanuatu Nese |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | map | |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | — | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Nese is a moribund Oceanic language or dialect known by no more than twenty people in the Matanvat area of the northwest tip of the island of Malakula in Vanuatu. It is now rarely spoken, having been replaced as a primary mode of communication by Bislama.
Nese is one of the few speech varieties to have apicolabial (linguolabial) consonants.
[edit] References
- Lynch, John (Dec. 2005). "The Apicolabial Shift in Nese". Oceanic Linguistics 44 (2): 389–403.
- Crowley, Terry (2006). Lynch, John: Nese: a diminishing speech variety of Northwest Malakula ( Vanuatu ). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
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