Tamambo

Tamambo, also called Malo, is an Oceanic language of Vanuatu, spoken on Malo island and neighboring islets off the southern coast of Espiritu Santo. Malo holds the earliest known Lapita culture settlement in Vanuatu, occupied around 1400 BC, and Tamambo is counted among the most conservative of the Southern Oceanic languages, retaining many features inherited from the speech of those first Austronesian settlers.

It has two dialects: the western dialect, whose form of the island's name gives the language its name Tamambo, and the eastern dialect called Tamapo, which had nearly died out by the twentieth century. Traditionally an unwritten language, Tamambo had no standard orthography.