V’ënen Taut

NMB

developing

Alternate Names: Big Nambas

Genealogy:

Austronesian

Malayo-Polynesian

Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian

Eastern Malayo-Polynesian

Oceanic

Central-Eastern Oceanic

Remote Oceanic

North and Central Vanuatu

Malekula Interior

Malekula Central

Demographics: 3,350 (Lynch and Crowley 2001).

Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: Below 1%. Literacy rate in L2: 5%–15%. NT: 1986.

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Vanuatu