Nisvai is an Oceanic language spoken in southeast Malekula, Vanuatu, on the eastern tip of the island, by about 200 speakers.[2][1]

The languages surrounding Nisvai include, or used to include, Port Sandwich, Nasvang, Sörsörian, Axamb and Avok.[2]

Name

The name Nisvai literally means "what".

References

  1. ^ a b Lynch, John & Terry Crowley. 2001. Languages of Vanuatu: A new survey and bibliography. Canberra: Australian National University.
  2. ^ a b Charpentier, Jean-Michel (1982). Atlas linguistique du Sud - Malekula—Linguistic Atlas of South Malekula (Vanuatu). Paris: Centre National de la Recherche.
  • Nisvai DoReCo corpus compiled by Jocelyn Aznar. Audio recordings of narrative texts with transcriptions time-aligned at the phone level, translations, and time-aligned morphological annotations.
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisvai_language
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