Nakanamanga

Nakanamanga, also called North Efate or Nguna, is an Oceanic language of northern Efate and the smaller islands off its coast, including Nguna and parts of Tongoa, Emae and Epi.

The waters and islets of northern Efate were the heartland of the Roi Mata, a chiefly title borne by a dynasty of rulers from the eleventh to the seventeenth century; the last Roi Mata, who lived around 1600, was buried with his retinue on Eretoka island, a site long held sacred. James Cook reached Efate in 1774 aboard HMS Resolution and named it Sandwich Island, after which the area was drawn into British and French rivalry over the New Hebrides.