Social:Tanimbili language

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Short description: Endangered language of Solomon Islands
Tanimbili
Tanibili
Native toSolomon Islands
RegionUtupua
Native speakers
(15 cited 1999)[1]
Austronesian
  • Malayo-Polynesian
    • Oceanic
      • Temotu
        • Utupua
          • Tanimbili
Language codes
ISO 639-3tbe
Glottologtani1255[2]
Lang Status 40-SE.svg
Tanimbili is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Tanimbili (Tanibili), or Nyisunggu, is a nearly-extinct language spoken on the island of Utupua, in the easternmost province of the Solomon Islands.[1][3]

Bibliography

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

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Tanimbili at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Tanimbili". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/tani1255. 
  3. Tryon (1994).