Nethalp language

Nethalp
Lorediakarkar
Native to	Vanuatu
Region	Santo Island, east coast
Native speakers	(340 cited 2000) [1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southern Oceanic North-Central Vanuatu North Vanuatu Espiritu Santo Nethalp
Language codes
ISO 639-3	lnn
Glottolog	lore1244
ELP	Tholp Lorediakarkar
Nethalp is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger .

Nethalp, or Lorediakarkar, is a language of the East Santo languages, a group of languages in the Austronesian family of Languages. It is spoken by about 340 people out of an ethnic population of 850 on Espiritu Santo Island in Vanuatu. It is close to the Shark Bay language.

References

1. Nethalp at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

Moseley, Christopher and R. E. Asher, ed. Atlas of the Worlds Languages. (New York: Routelage, 1994)

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