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Lenakel, or West Tanna, is a dialect chain spoken on the western coast of Tanna Island in Vanuatu. Lenakel is one of five languages spoken on Tanna. The native name for the language is ''Netvaar'', and speakers refer to their language as ''Nakaraan taha Lenakel'' "the language of Lenakel".〔Lynch, J. & Crowley, T. (2001). Languages of Vanuatu: A new survey and bibliography. ''Pacific Linguistics'' (517)128. Wurm, S.A. (ed.). Canberra : Pacific linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. 〕 Lenakel has been extensively researched and documented by John Lynch, and both a dictionary and a detailed linguistic description of the language have been published. ==Classification== Lenakel is an Austronesian language of southern Vanuatu. Its closest relatives are the other four Tanna languages spoken on the island of Tanna. It is particularly closely related to the Whitesands language and North Tanna, the two languages closest in geographic space to the Lenakel language area. Although none of the languages of Tanna are strictly mutually intelligible, there is a high degree of lexical overlap, and the grammars of Lenakel, Whitesands, and North Tanna are nearly identical.〔Lynch, J. (1978). A Grammar of Lenakel. ''Pacific Linguistics Series B'' (55)1. Wurm, S.A. (ed.). Canberra: A.N.U. Printing Service.〕 Based on Swadesh list data, Lenakel was found to be 73-80% lexically identical to North Tanna and 75-81% lexically identical to Whitesands.〔Lynch, J. (1978). A Grammar of Lenakel. Pacific Linguistics Series B (55)1. Wurm, S.A. (ed.). Canberra: A.N.U. Printing Service.〕 Linguist D.T. Tryon has referred to the linguistic situation in Vanuatu as one of "language-chaining," a reference to Dialect continuum, the idea within linguistics that dialects exist along a continuum or chain within a language area.〔Tryon, D.T. (1976). New Hebrides Languages: An internal classification. ''Pacific Linguistics Series'' C (50)79. Wurm, S.A. (ed.). Canberra: A.N.U. Printing Service.〕
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