Nisvai language

Nisvai
Vetbon
Native to	Vanuatu
Region	Malekula
Native speakers	200 (2001) [1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southern Oceanic North-Central Vanuatu Central Vanuatu Malakula Malakula Interior Nisvai
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	nisv1234
ELP	Nisvai
Nisvai is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger .

Nisvai is an Oceanic language spoken in southeast Malekula, Vanuatu, on the eastern tip of the island, by about 200 speakers. ^{[2] [1]}

The languages surrounding Nisvai include, or used to include, Port Sandwich, Nasvang, Sörsörian, Axamb and Avok. ^[2]

Name

The name Nisvai literally means "what".

References

1. Lynch, John & Terry Crowley. 2001. Languages of Vanuatu: A new survey and bibliography. Canberra: Australian National University.
2. Charpentier, Jean-Michel (1982). Atlas linguistique du Sud - Malekula—Linguistic Atlas of South Malekula (Vanuatu). Paris: Centre National de la Recherche.

External links

• Nisvai DoReCo corpus compiled by Jocelyn Aznar. Audio recordings of narrative texts with transcriptions time-aligned at the phone level, translations, and time-aligned morphological annotations.