Port Sandwich | |
Also Known As: | Lamap |
Region: | Malekula |
State: | Vanuatu |
Speakers: | 1,200 |
Date: | 2001 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Austronesian |
Fam2: | Malayo-Polynesian |
Fam3: | Oceanic |
Fam4: | Southern Oceanic |
Fam5: | North-Central Vanuatu |
Fam6: | Central Vanuatu |
Fam7: | Malakula |
Fam8: | Malakula Coastal |
Iso3: | psw |
Glotto: | port1285 |
Glottorefname: | Port Sandwich |
Map: | Lang Status 99-NE.svg |
Port Sandwich, or Lamap, is an Oceanic language spoken in southeast Malekula, Vanuatu, on the eastern tip of the island. It was first described in 1979 by French linguist Jean-Michel Charpentier.[1]
Nisvai is a separate language.[2]