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Paamese
Paama
Native to
Vanuatu
Native speakers
(6,000 cited 1996)[1]
Language family
Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Oceanic
Southern Oceanic
North-Central Vanuatu
Central Vanuatu
Paamese
Language codes
ISO 639-3
pma
Glottolog
paam1238
Paamese is not endangered according to the classification system of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
Paamese, or Paama, is the language of the island of Paama in Northern Vanuatu. There is no indigenous term for the language; however linguists have adopted the term Paamese to refer to it. Both a grammar and a dictionary of Paamese have been produced by Terry Crowley.
^Paamese at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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