Dialects: East Tanna, Imafin, West Tanna. In a dialect chain. Reportedly similar to Whitesands ,.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 5,000 (Lynch and Crowley 2001).
Language Use: Also use Bislama [bis], but many women and some men do not understand it.
Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: Below 1%. Literacy rate in L2: 5%–15%. NT: 2007.
Typology: SVO.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Vanuatu