Tanimbili language

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Tanimbili
Tanibili
Native toSolomon Islands
RegionUtupua
Native speakers
(15 cited 1999)
Language codes
ISO 639-3tbe
Glottologtani1255
ELPTanimbili
Tanimbili is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Tanimbili (Tanibili), or Nyisunggu, is a nearly-extinct language spoken on the island of Utupua, in the easternmost province of the Solomon Islands.

Bibliography

  • Tryon, Darrell (1994). "Language contact and contact-induced language change in the Eastern Outer Islands, Solomon Islands". In Tom Dutton; Darrell Tryon (eds.). Language Contact and Change in the Austronesian World. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 611–648. ISBN 978-3-11-088309-1..

References

  1. ^ a b Tanimbili at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Tryon (1994).