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ISO 639-3 · tnptnp
Austronesian family

Whitesands

Whitesands is a language of the Tanna branch (Austronesian), spoken in Vanuatu. Wikidata counts 7,500 first-language speakers (2001).

7 · Shifting7,500
Wikidata recordGlottolog
At a glance
ISO 639-3
tnp
Glottocode
whit1269
Wikipedia
7 language editions
7,500first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
1countries
—scripts
10levels in the tree
7EGIDS level

Facts

NameWhitesands
Also calledWhitesands language
L1 speakers7,500 (2001)

Vitality

EGIDS 7 Shifting7

Endangered. Children are no longer learning it everywhere, or only grandparents speak it — EGIDS 6b to 8b.

Other languages at this level
family tree

From Austronesian to Whitesands

The branches above Whitesands, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.

1039Austronesianfamily944Malayo-Polynesianbranch634Nuclear Malayo-Polynesianbranch579Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesianbranch470Eastern Malayo-Polynesianbranch438Oceanicbranch220Central–Eastern Oceanicbranch130Southern Oceanicbranch9South Vanuatubranch5TannabranchtnpWhitesandslanguage
where it is spoken

Countries

Vanuatu113 languages in the index

Also spoken in Vanuatu

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