Ngen language
| Ngen | |
|---|---|
| Shark Bay | |
| Native to | Vanuatu |
| Region | Litaro (Pilot) Island, Shark Bay coast |
| Ethnicity | spoken by 40% (no date)[1] |
Native speakers | 450 (2001)[2] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
ssv |
| Glottolog |
shar1244[3] |
Ngen, or Shark Bay, is one of the East Santo languages group of languages. It is spoken on Espiritu Santo in Vanuatu. It has about 450 speakers. It is close to Lorediakarkar.
References
- ↑ Ngen language at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
- ↑ Ngen at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Shark Bay". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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