Neverver
Lingarak; Nevwervwer; Bushman's Bay; Mallicolo;
Austronesian; Malayo-Polynesian; Oceanic; Central Vanuatu
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This number was calculated based on a door to door head count and is considered highly accurate.
2008
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Vanuatu
-16.178, 167.469; -16.212, 167.5415
Spoken on the Island of Malakula, in the north-central area. Primarily spoken in Lingarakh and Limap villages, which are located up the Nurumbat and Netmatlam rivers respectively. Near Bushman's Bay. Some speakers have migrated to the eastern coast.
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Spoken on the Island of Malakula, in the north-central area. Primarily spoken in Lingarakh and Limap villages, which are located up the Nurumbat and Netmatlam rivers respectively. Near Bushman's Bay. Some speakers have migrated to the eastern coast.
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Bislama is used in the wider national context and in the church. English is the language of education.
Local languages are protected in the constitution, but in practice Bislama and English are aggressively promoted via the public education system.
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Data for the number of native speakers comes from Lynch and Crowley (2001).
2009
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2015
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Vanuatu
-16.182437,167.543564;
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- Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
- World Oral Literature Project"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.http://www.oralliterature.org
- Documentation of the Neverver language, Malakula, Vanuatu" HRELP AbstractBarbour, Julie. 2004. "Documentation of the Neverver Language, Malakula, Vanuatu" HRELP Abstract." Online: http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=53.http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=53
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)http://www.ethnologue.com/
- LL-MAP (Language and Location: A Map Accessibility Project)Anthony Aristar, Helen Aristar-Dry and Yichun Xie. 2012. "LL-MAP (Language and Location: A Map Accessibility Project)." Online: http://llmap.org.http://llmap.org
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