Nethalp language

Nethalp
Nethalp
Lorediakarkar
Native to	Vanuatu
Region	Santo Island, east coast
Extinct	No native speakers, considered dormant
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southern Oceanic North-Central Vanuatu North Vanuatu Espiritu Santo Nethalp; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	lnn
Glottolog	lore1244
ELP	Tholp; Lorediakarkar;
	Nethalp is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.

Nethalp, or Lorediakarkar, is a dormant or extinct language of the East Santo languages, a group of languages in the Austronesian family of Languages. It was spoken by an ethnic population of on Espiritu Santo Island in Vanuatu. It was close geographically and linguistically to the Shark Bay language.

References

Moseley, Christopher and R. E. Asher, ed. Atlas of the Worlds Languages. (New York: Routelage, 1994)
François, Alexandre; Franjieh, Michael; Lacrampe, Sébastien; Schnell, Stefan (2015), "The exceptional linguistic density of Vanuatu", in François, Alexandre; Lacrampe, Sébastien; Franjieh, Michael; Schnell, Stefan (eds.), The Languages of Vanuatu: Unity and Diversity, Studies in the Languages of Island Melanesia, Canberra: Asia Pacific Linguistics Open Access, pp. 1–21, hdl:1885/14819, ISBN 9781922185235

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