Dialects: Several dialects.
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
Malekula Coastal
Demographics: 1,200 (Lynch and Crowley 2001).
Nation of Origin: Vanuatu