Port Sandwich language

{{short description|Austronesian language spoken in Vanuatu}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Port Sandwich

|altname=Lamap

|region=Malekula

|state=Vanuatu

|speakers=1,200

|date=2001

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Austronesian

|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian

|fam3=Oceanic

|fam4=Southern Oceanic

|fam5=North-Central Vanuatu

|fam6=Central Vanuatu

|fam7=Malakula

|fam8=Malakula Coastal

|iso3=psw

|glotto=port1285

|glottorefname=Port Sandwich

|dia1=

|map = Lang Status 99-NE.svg

|mapcaption = {{center|{{small|Port Sandwich is not endangered according to the classification system of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger}}}}

}}

Port Sandwich, or Lamap, is an Oceanic language spoken in southeast Malekula, Vanuatu, on the eastern tip of the island. It was first described in 1979 by French linguist Jean-Michel Charpentier.{{Cite book |last=Charpentier |first=Jean-Michel |url=https://www.odsas.net/set/586 |title=La langue de Port-Sandwich (Nouvelles-Hébrides): introduction phonologique et grammaire |date=1979 |publisher=Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale |isbn=9782852970564 |series=SELAF |location=Paris |pages=208 |language=fr |access-date=28 November 2014}}

Nisvai is a separate language.{{Cite book |last=Lynch |first=John |title=Languages of Vanuatu: A New Survey and Bibliography |last2=Crowley |first2=Terry |date=2001 |publisher=Pacific Linguistics |isbn=0-85883-469-3 |series=Pacific Linguistics 517 |location=Canberra |language=en |doi=10.15144/PL-517 |hdl=1885/146135 |doi-access=free |hdl-access=free}}