Dialects: Narovorovo, Nasawa, Talise. Considerable dialect variation.
Genealogy:
Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
Oceanic
Central-Eastern Oceanic
Remote Oceanic
North and Central Vanuatu
Northeast Vanuatu-Banks Islands
East Vanuatu
Demographics: 1,330 (Lynch and Crowley 2001).
Nation of Origin: Vanuatu