Southwest Tanna language

Southwest Tanna
Nawal
Native to	Vanuatu
Region	Tanna Island
Native speakers	4,500 (2011)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southern Oceanic South Vanuatu Tanna Southwest Tanna
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nwi
Glottolog	sout2869
Southwest Tanna is not endangered according to the classification system of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Southwest Tanna is a dialect chain spoken on the southwestern coast of Tanna Island in Vanuatu. Lynch (1982) names three major dialects: Nivhaal in the north-west of the language area (spelt "Nauvhal" in publicity for the 2015 film Tanna), Nivai in the south-west, and Nelpwaai in the north-east.^[2]

References

1. Southwest Tanna at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. John Lynch (1982). "South-West Tanna Grammar Outline and Vocabulary". Papers in Linguistics of Melanesia. 4.

External links

• Database of audio recordings in language of Tanna, Southwest - basic Catholic prayers
• Paradisec has two collections of Arthur Cappell's materials (AC1, AC2) that include Southwest Tanna language materials.
• Nehrbass's Comprehensive lexicon contains data on the dialects of the Southwest Tanna language ([1])