Vʼënen Taut language

Big Nambas
Big Nambas
Vʼënen Taut
Pronunciation	[ˈθ̼ənɛn tautʰ]
Native to	Vanuatu
Region	Northwest Malekula
Native speakers	(3,400 cited 2001)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southern Oceanic North-Central Vanuatu Central Vanuatu Malakula Malakula Interior Big Nambas; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nmb
Glottolog	bign1238
	Vʼënen Taut is not endangered according to the classification system of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Vʼënen Taut, also known as Big Nambas, is an Oceanic language spoken by about 3,400 people (as of 2001) in northwest Malekula, Vanuatu. Approximately nineteen villages in the Big Nambas region of the Malekula Interior use the language exclusively, with no variation in dialect. It was studied in depth over a period of about ten years by missionary Greg J. Fox, who published a grammar and dictionary in 1979. A Vʼënen Taut translation of the Bible was recently completed by Andrew Fox.