Alternate Names: Banan Bay, Burmbar, Vartavo
Dialects: Some dialect differences.
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: 900 (Lynch and Crowley 2001).
Nation of Origin: Vanuatu