Lenakel is the largest town on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu

Vanuatu

Vanuatu , officially the Republic of Vanuatu , is an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is some east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, west of Fiji, and southeast of the Solomon Islands, near New Guinea.Vanuatu was...

. It is located on the west coast of the island near the administrative capital of Isangel

Isangel

Isangel is a city in Vanuatu. Located on the island of Tanna, it is the provincial administrative capital of Tafea Province. The town has a population of about 1,200, most of them Melanesians; the major languages of the area are Lénakel and the national tongue Bislama, an English creole....

 and serves as a major port of entry. It is the center of the Lenakel language, one of the five Tanna languages native to the island; Vanuatu's official tongue, the English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 creole

Creole language

A creole language, or simply a creole, is a stable natural language developed from the mixing of parent languages; creoles differ from pidgins in that they have been nativized by children as their primary language, making them have features of natural languages that are normally missing from...

 Bislama is spoken as well.