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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Pacific > Vanuatu > Nambas, Big

Nambas, Big

A language of Vanuatu

ISO 639-3nmb

Population  3,350 (Lynch and Crowley 2001).
Region  Northwest Malekula.
Language map  Vanuatu, Enlarged Area
Alternate names   V’ënen Taut
Classification  Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, North and Central Vanuatu, Malekula Interior, Malekula Central
Language development  Literacy rate in L1: Below 1%. Literacy rate in L2: 5%–15%. NT: 1986.