Lamen
Facts
- Language: Lamen
- Alternate names: Lamenu, Varmali
- Language code: lmu
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, North and Central Vanuatu, Northeast Vanuatu-Banks Islands, Epi, Lamenu-Baki, Lamenu-Lewo (SIL classification)
- Number of speakers: 850
- Vulnerability: Endangered
- Script: Latin script.
More information:
Population of Lamenu and Epi was over 14,000, but was reduced to 800 in early 1900s due to disease and economic dependence. Christian.
Lamen is spoken in Vanuatu, Pacific.