Whitesands

TNP

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Alternate Names: Napuanmen, Whitsands

Dialects: Lometimeti, Weasisi (Wassisi).

Genealogy:

Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
Oceanic
Central-Eastern Oceanic
South Vanuatu
Tanna

Demographics: 7,500 (Lynch and Crowley 2001).

Language Use: Also use English [eng].

Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 1%–5%. Literacy rate in L2: 5%–15%. NT: 1924.

Typology: SVO.

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Vanuatu