Big Nambas language
Austronesian language spoken in Vanuatu / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Big Nambas (native name V'ənen Taut) is an Oceanic language spoken by about 3,400 people (as of 2001[update]) in northwest Malekula, Vanuatu. Approximately nineteen villages in the Big Nambas region of the Malekula Interior use the language exclusively with no variation in dialect. It was studied in-depth over a period of about 10 years by missionary Greg. J. Fox, who published a grammar and dictionary in 1979. A Big Nambas translation of the Bible has been completed recently by Andrew Fox.
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Big Nambas | |
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V'ənen Taut | |
Pronunciation | [ˈθ̼ənɛn tautʰ] |
Native to | Vanuatu |
Region | Northwest Malekula |
Native speakers | 3,400 (2001)[1] |
Latin script | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | nmb |
Glottolog | bign1238 |
Big Nambas is not endangered according to the classification system of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
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