- Nese language
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Nese Spoken in Matanvat area, northwest Malakula, Vanuatu Native speakers 20 (date missing) Language family Austronesian- Malayo-Polynesian
- Oceanic
- Central-Eastern
- Southern Oceanic
- Vanuatu
- North Vanuatu
- Santo–Malekula
- Malekula
- Nese
- Malekula
- Santo–Malekula
- North Vanuatu
- Vanuatu
- Southern Oceanic
- Central-Eastern
- Oceanic
Language codes ISO 639-3 None Nese is a moribund Oceanic language or dialect known by no more than twenty people in the Matanvat area of the northwest tip of the island of Malakula in Vanuatu. It is now rarely spoken, having been replaced as a primary mode of communication by Bislama.
Nese is one of the few speech varieties to have linguolabial consonants.
References
- Lynch, John (December 2005). "The Apicolabial Shift in Nese". Oceanic Linguistics 44 (2): 389–403. doi:10.1353/ol.2005.0040.
- Crowley, Terry (2006). Lynch, John. ed. Nese: a diminishing speech variety of Northwest Malakula ( Vanuatu ). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. http://pacling.anu.edu.au/catalogue/577.html.
External links
Categories:- Language articles with undated speaker data
- Languages without iso3 codes
- Malekula Coastal languages
- Languages of Vanuatu
- Austronesian language stubs
- Malayo-Polynesian
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