Nasvang Language
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Nasvang is an
Oceanic language The approximately 450 Oceanic languages are a branch of the Austronesian languages. The area occupied by speakers of these languages includes Polynesia, as well as much of Melanesia and Micronesia. Though covering a vast area, Oceanic languages ...
spoken in southeast
Malekula Malakula Island, also spelled Malekula, is the second-largest island in the nation of Vanuatu, formerly the New Hebrides, in Melanesia, a region of the Pacific Ocean. Location Malakula is separated from the islands of Espiritu Santo and Malo by t ...
,
Vanuatu Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (french: link=no, République de Vanuatu; bi, Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island country located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of no ...
,. by about 275 speakers.Lynch, John & Terry Crowley. 2001. ''Languages of Vanuatu: A new survey and bibliography''. Canberra: Australian National University. The languages surrounding Nasvang include, or used to include, Port Sandwich,
Nisvai Nisvai is an Oceanic language spoken in southeast Malekula, Vanuatu Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (french: link=no, République de Vanuatu; bi, Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island country located in the South Paci ...
, Sörsörian, Axamb and Navwien.


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Malekula languages Languages of Vanuatu {{SOceanic-lang-stub