Nethalp, or Lorediakarkar, is a dormant or extinct language of the East Santo languages, a group of languages in the Austronesian family of Languages. It was spoken by an ethnic population of on Espiritu Santo Island in Vanuatu. It was close geographically and linguistically to the Shark Bay language.
References
- ^ François et al. (2015), p. 19.
- ^ Lorediakarkar at Ethnologue (28th ed., 2025)
- Moseley, Christopher and R. E. Asher, ed. Atlas of the Worlds Languages. (New York: Routelage, 1994)
- François, Alexandre; Franjieh, Michael; Lacrampe, Sébastien; Schnell, Stefan (2015), “The exceptional linguistic density of Vanuatu”, in François, Alexandre; Lacrampe, Sébastien; Franjieh, Michael; Schnell, Stefan (eds.), The Languages of Vanuatu: Unity and Diversity, Studies in the Languages of Island Melanesia, Canberra: Asia Pacific Linguistics Open Access, pp. 1–21, hdl:1885/14819, ISBN 9781922185235
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