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Austronesian language spoken in Vanuatu
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.[2]
Nisvai is a separate language.[3]
References
- ^ Port Sandwich at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Charpentier, Jean-Michel (1979). La langue de Port-Sandwich (Nouvelles-Hébrides): introduction phonologique et grammaire. SELAF (in French). Paris: Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale. p. 208. ISBN 9782852970564. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
- ^ Lynch, John; Crowley, Terry (2001). Languages of Vanuatu: A New Survey and Bibliography. Pacific Linguistics 517. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. doi:10.15144/PL-517. hdl:1885/146135. ISBN 0-85883-469-3.
External links
- Materials on Lamap are included in the open access Arthur Capell collection (AC2) held by Paradisec
- Aviva MPI Shimelman collection of Lamap materials available on Paradisec
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