Whitesands
A language of Vanuatu
| Population | 7,500 (Lynch and Crowley 2001). |
| Region | Tanna Island, east coast. |
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Vanuatu |
| Alternate names | Napuanmen, Whitsands |
| Dialects | Weasisi (Wassisi), Lometimeti. |
| Classification | Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, South Vanuatu, Tanna |
| Language development | Literacy rate in L1: 1%–5%. Literacy rate in L2: 5%–15%. NT: 1924. |
| Writing system | Latin script. |
| Comments | SVO. |
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