Navwien language

{{Short description|Possibly extinct language of Vanuatu}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Navwien

|altname=

|states=Vanuatu

|region=Malakula

|speakers="handful"

|date=2013

|ref=

|familycolor=Austronesian

|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian

|fam3=Oceanic

|fam4=Southern Oceanic

|fam5=North-Central Vanuatu

|fam6=Central Vanuatu

|fam7=Malakula

|fam8=Malakula Interior

|iso3=none

|glotto=navw1234

|glottorefname=Navwien

|map = Lang Status 20-CR.svg

|mapcaption = {{center|{{small|Navwien is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger}}}}

}}

Navwien is a possibly extinct language of Vanuatu, presumably one of the Malekula Interior languages.[https://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/10191/1/Blust_AustronesianLanguages2013.pdf Robert Blust, 2013, The Austronesian Languages] It was spoken in the southwestern corner of Malekula, near Malfaxal.