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Preferred term

nmbBig Nambas  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Big Nambas (native name V'ənen Taut) is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by about 1,800 people in northwest Malekula, Vanuatu. Approximately nineteen villages in the Big Nambas region of the Malekula Interior use the language exclusively with no variation in dialect. It was studied in-depth over a period of about 10 years by missionary G. J. Fox, who published a grammar and dictionary in 1979.

Entry terms

  • Big Nambas language
  • Nambas, Big
  • V'ënen Taut

ISO 639-3 code

  • nmb

Notation

  • nmb

In other languages

  • Big Nambas

    French

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/nmb

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