Nese language

Nese
Nese
Region	Matanvat area, northwest Malakula, Vanuatu
Native speakers	20 (2010)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southern Oceanic Central Vanuatu Malakula Northern Nese; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	nese1235
ELP	Nese

Nese is a moribund Oceanic language or dialect known by no more than twenty people in the Matanvat area of the northwest tip of the island of Malakula in Vanuatu. It is now rarely spoken, having been replaced as a primary mode of communication by Bislama.

Nese is one of the few languages to have linguolabial consonants.

References

^ Guerin, Valerie (2010). "Nese: A diminishing speech variety of Northwest Malakula (Vanuatu) (review)". Oceanic Linguistics. 49 (2): 595–600.

Lynch, John (2005). "The Apicolabial Shift in Nese". Oceanic Linguistics. 44 (2): 389–403. doi:10.1353/ol.2005.0040.
Crowley, Terry (2006). Lynch, John (ed.). Nese: a diminishing speech variety of Northwest Malakula ( Vanuatu ). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
Takau, Lana Grelyn (2016). A grammar of Nese (PhD thesis). University of Newcastle. hdl:1959.13/1322479.

External links

Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database wordlist

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[1] Guerin, Valerie (2010). "Nese: A diminishing speech variety of Northwest Malakula (Vanuatu) (review)". Oceanic Linguistics. 49 (2): 595–600.

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