Port Sandwich language

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.^[2]

Port Sandwich
Lamap
Native to	Vanuatu
Region	Malekula
Native speakers	1,200 (2001)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southern Oceanic North-Central Vanuatu Central Vanuatu Malakula Malakula Coastal Port Sandwich
Language codes
ISO 639-3	psw
Glottolog	port1285
ELP	Port Sandwich
Port Sandwich is not endangered according to the classification system of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Nisvai is a separate language.^[3]

References

1. Port Sandwich at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Charpentier, Jean-Michel (1979). La langue de Port-Sandwich (Nouvelles-Hébrides): introduction phonologique et grammaire. SELAF (in French). Paris: Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale. p. 208. ISBN 9782852970564. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
3. Lynch, John; Crowley, Terry (2001). Languages of Vanuatu: A New Survey and Bibliography. Pacific Linguistics 517. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. doi:10.15144/PL-517. hdl:1885/146135. ISBN 0-85883-469-3.

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