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Nahavaq, also known as South West Bay (Malekula) or Siesip, is one of the many languages of the Malekula Coast group of Vanuatu.

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Nahavaq
South West Bay, Siesip
Native to	Vanuatu
Region	Malekula
Ethnicity	860 ethnic population (no date)^[1]
Native speakers	600 (2001)^[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southern Oceanic North-Central Vanuatu Central Vanuatu Malakula Malakula Coastal Nahavaq
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`sns`
Glottolog	`sout2857`
ELP	Nahavaq
Nahavaq is not endangered according to the classification system of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

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Nahavaq at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

ELAR archive of Nahavaq language documentation materials.
Paradisec has a number of collections that include Nahavaq language materials

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