Rerep language

Rerep (also Pangkumu or Tisman) is one of the great many languages of the Malekula Coast group spoken in Vanuatu. In 1983 it had 375 speakers out of an ethnic population of 580. Portions of the Bible were translated into Rerep between 1892 and 1913.

Rerep
Pangkumu, Tisman
Native to	Vanuatu
Region	East Malekula
Native speakers	(380 cited 1983)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southern Oceanic North-Central Vanuatu Central Vanuatu Malakula Malakula Coastal Unua-Pangkumu Rerep
Dialects	Tisman
Language codes
ISO 639-3	pgk
Glottolog	rere1240
ELP	Rerep
Rerep is not endangered according to the classification system of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

External links

• Materials on Rerep are included in the open access Arthur Capell collections (AC1 and AC2) held by Paradisec
• Aviva MPI Shimelman collection of Rerep materials in Paradisec

References

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