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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Pacific > Vanuatu > Tanna, Southwest

Tanna, Southwest

A language of Vanuatu

ISO 639-3: nwi

Population  5,000 (Lynch and Crowley 2001).
Region  Southwest Tanna Island.
Language map  Vanuatu
Dialects  Nowai, Nvhal, Navava. A complex dialect chain (Wurm and Hattori 1981).
Classification  Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, South Vanuatu, Tanna
Writing system  Latin script.
Comments  Agriculturalists: coconut; copra production.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Vernacular Publications

?Kamrai nəgkiarien tuk naha?. 2003.

Fasin blong rid long Saot Wes Tanna lanwis: buk ia i soem olsem wanem ol leta blong Saot Wes Tanna lanwis oli defren long ol leta blong Bislama. 2005.