Social:Navwien language

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Short description: Possibly extinct language of Vanuatu
Navwien
Native toVanuatu
RegionMalakula
Native speakers
"handful" (2013)[1]
Austronesian
  • Malayo-Polynesian
    • Oceanic
      • Southern Oceanic
        • North-Central Vanuatu
          • Central Vanuatu
            • Malakula
              • Malakula Interior
                • Navwien
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottolognavw1234[2]
Lang Status 20-CR.svg
Navwien is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Navwien is a possibly extinct language of Vanuatu, presumably one of the Malekula Interior languages.[1] It was spoken in the southwestern corner of Malekula, near Malfaxal.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Robert Blust, 2013, The Austronesian Languages
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Navwien". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/navw1234. 



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