Nethalp language

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Nethalp
Lorediakarkar
Native toVanuatu
RegionSanto Island, east coast
Native speakers
(340 cited 2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3lnn
Glottologlore1244
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Nethalp is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.

Nethalp, or Lorediakarkar, is a language of the East Santo languages, a group of languages in the Austronesian family of Languages. It is spoken by about 340 people out of an ethnic population of 850 on Espiritu Santo Island in Vanuatu. It is close to the Shark Bay language.

References

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  1. ^ Nethalp at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

Moseley, Christopher and R. E. Asher, ed. Atlas of the Worlds Languages. (New York: Routelage, 1994)

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