Tanimbili language

Tanimbili
Tanimbili
Tanibili
Native to	Solomon Islands
Region	Utupua
Native speakers	(15 cited 1999)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Temotu Utupua Tanimbili; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tbe
Glottolog	tani1255
ELP	Tanimbili
	Tanimbili is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger .

Last updated November 04, 2025

Tanimbili (Tanibili), or Nyisunggu, is a nearly-extinct language spoken on the island of Utupua, in the easternmost province of the Solomon Islands.^[1]^[2]

Bibliography

Tryon, Darrell (1994). "Language contact and contact-induced language change in the Eastern Outer Islands, Solomon Islands". In Tom Dutton; Darrell Tryon (eds.). Language Contact and Change in the Austronesian World. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 611–648. ISBN 978-3-11-088309-1..

References

1 2 Tanimbili at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
↑ Tryon (1994).

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[e18-1] 1 2 Tanimbili at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[DT1994-2] Tryon (1994).

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