Social:Tambotalo language

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Short description: Oceanic language of Vanuatu
Tambotalo
Biliru
Native toVanuatu
RegionEspiritu Santo
Native speakers
(50 cited 1981)[1]
Austronesian
  • Malayo-Polynesian
    • Oceanic
      • Southern Oceanic
        • North-Central Vanuatu
          • North Vanuatu
            • Espiritu Santo
              • Tambotalo
Language codes
ISO 639-3tls
Glottologtamb1253[2]
Lang Status 40-SE.svg
Tambotalo is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Tambotalo, or Biliru, is a nearly extinct Oceanic language spoken in a single village in the southeast of Espiritu Santo Island in Vanuatu.

References

  1. Tambotalo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Tambotalo". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/tamb1253.