Whitesands language

Whitesands
East Tanna
Native to Vanuatu
Region Tanna Island, east coast
Native speakers
 7,500 (2001)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tnp
Glottolog whit1269[2]

Whitesands, or East Tanna, is a language spoken on the eastern coast of Tanna Island in Vanuatu. It is closely related to the North Tanna and Lenakel languages.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Whitesands at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Whitesands". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ Hammond, J. (2009). The grammar of nouns and verbs in Whitesands, an oceanic language of Southern Vanuatu. Master Thesis, University of Sydney, Sydney. link
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