Whitesands language
Whitesands | |
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East Tanna | |
Native to | Vanuatu |
Region | Tanna Island, east coast |
Native speakers | 7,500 (2001)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
tnp |
Glottolog |
whit1269 [2] |
Whitesands, or East Tanna, is a language spoken on the eastern coast of Tanna Island in Vanuatu. It is closely related to the North Tanna and Lenakel languages.[3]
References
- ↑ Whitesands at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Whitesands". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Hammond, J. (2009). The grammar of nouns and verbs in Whitesands, an oceanic language of Southern Vanuatu. Master Thesis, University of Sydney, Sydney. link
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