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Port Sandwich
Lamap
Native toVanuatu
RegionMalakula
Native speakers
(1,200 cited 2001)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3psw
Glottologport1285
ELPPort Sandwich
Port Sandwich is not endangered according to the classification system of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Port Sandwich, or Lamap, is an Oceanic language spoken in southeast Malakula, Vanuatu, on the eastern tip of the island. It was first described in 1979 by French linguist Jean-Michel Charpentier.[2]

Nisvai is a separate language.[3]

References

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  1. Port Sandwich at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Charpentier, Jean-Michel (1979). La langue de Port-Sandwich (Nouvelles-Hébrides): introduction phonologique et grammaire. SELAF (in French). Paris: LACITO. p. 208. ISBN 9782852970564. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
  3. Lynch, John; Crowley, Terry (2001). Languages of Vanuatu: A New Survey and Bibliography. Pacific Linguistics 517. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. doi:10.15144/PL-517. hdl:1885/146135. ISBN 0-85883-469-3.
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