Nethalp language

Nethalp
	Lorediakarkar
Native to	Vanuatu
Region	Santo Island, east coast
Native speakers	340 (2000)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southern Oceanic Northern Vanuatu East Santo South Nethalp; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	lnn
Glottolog	lore1244[2]

Nethalp, or Lorediakarkar, is a language of the East Santo languages, a group of languages in the Austronesian family of Languages. It is spoken by about 340 people out of an ethnic population of 850 on Espiritu Santo Island in Vanuatu. It is close to the Shark Bay language.

References

Nethalp at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nethalp". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Moseley, Christopher and R. E. Asher, ed. Atlas of the Worlds Languages. (New York: Routelage, 1994)

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[e18-1] Nethalp at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nethalp". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.