Tanna, North

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ISO 639-3

Population

5,000 (Lynch and Crowley 2001).

Location

Tafea province: north Tanna island.

Language Maps

Language Status

5 (Developing).

Classification

Dialects

East Tanna, West Tanna, Imafin. In a dialect chain. Reportedly similar to Whitesands [tnp].

Typology

SVO.

Language Use

Also use Bislama [bis], but many women and some men do not understand it.

Language Development

Literacy rate in L2: 5%–15%. NT: 2007.

Language Resources

Writing

Latin script [Latn].