Port Sandwich language

Port Sandwich
	Lamap
Native to	Vanuatu
Region	Malekula
Native speakers	1,200 (2001)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southern Oceanic Central Vanuatu Malakula Eastern Port Sandwich; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	psw
Glottolog	port1285
ELP	Port Sandwich[2]

Port Sandwich, or Lamap, is an Oceanic language spoken in southeast Malekula, Vanuatu, on the eastern tip of the island. It was first described in 1979 by French linguist Jean-Michel Charpentier.[3]

Nisvai is a separate language.[4]

External links

Materials on Lamap are included in the open access Arthur Capell collection (AC2) held by Paradisec
Aviva MPI Shimelman collection of Lamap materials available on Paradisec

References

Port Sandwich at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Endangered Languages Project data for Port Sandwich.
Charpentier, Jean-Michel (1979). La langue de Port-Sandwich (Nouvelles-Hébrides): introduction phonologique et grammaire. SELAF. Paris: Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale. p. 208. ISBN 9782852970564. Retrieved 28 Nov 2014.
Lynch, John & Terry Crowley. 2001. Languages of Vanuatu: A new survey and bibliography. Canberra: Australian National University.

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[e18-1] Port Sandwich at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[ELP1-2] Endangered Languages Project data for Port Sandwich.

[JMC-3] Charpentier, Jean-Michel (1979). La langue de Port-Sandwich (Nouvelles-Hébrides): introduction phonologique et grammaire. SELAF. Paris: Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale. p. 208. ISBN 9782852970564. Retrieved 28 Nov 2014.

[LC-4] Lynch, John & Terry Crowley. 2001. Languages of Vanuatu: A new survey and bibliography. Canberra: Australian National University.