Big Nambas language

Big Nambas
Big Nambas
V'ənen Taut
Pronunciation	[ˈθ̼ənɛn tautʰ]
Native to	Vanuatu
Region	Northwest Malekula
Native speakers	3,400 (2001)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southern Oceanic North-Central Vanuatu Central Vanuatu Malakula Malakula Interior Big Nambas; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nmb
Glottolog	bign1238
	Big Nambas is not endangered according to the classification system of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Big Nambas (native name V'ənen Taut) is an Oceanic language spoken by about 3,400 people (as of 2001) in northwest Malekula, Vanuatu. Approximately nineteen villages in the Big Nambas region of the Malekula Interior use the language exclusively with no variation in dialect. It was studied in-depth over a period of about 10 years by missionary Greg. J. Fox, who published a grammar and dictionary in 1979. A Big Nambas translation of the Bible has been completed recently by Andrew Fox.

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