• Nengone is a language of the Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia. The phonological inventory of consonants is atypically large for an Oceanic language. Many...
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  • voiceless nasals. Loyalty Islands Drehu (Lifou Island) Iaai (Ouvéa Island) Nengone (Maré Island) Mainland New Caledonian Southern New Caledonian Extreme Southern...
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  • endangered Polynesian language of the Austronesian language family, originating in and native to the Hawaiian Islands. It is the native language of the Hawaiian...
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    Soyons unis, devenons frères (category Articles containing Nengone-language text)
    enetho. See Help:IPA and Nengone language § Phonology. See Help:IPA and Iaai language § Phonology. See Help:IPA and Ndrumbea language § Phonology. See Help:IPA...
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    Tungaru), is an Austronesian language spoken mainly in Kiribati. It belongs to the Micronesian branch of the Oceanic languages. The word Kiribati, the current...
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  • Académie des langues kanak) have this status: Drehu (island of Lifou), Nengone (island of Maré), A'jië (around Houaïlou), Paicî (around Poindimié) and...
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    Kanak people (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    used during ceremonies by a group of men; Jew's harp, (wadohnu in the Nengone language where it originated) made of dried piece of coconut palm leaf held...
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    iTaukei is an Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family spoken by some 350,000–450,000 ethnic Fijians as a native language. The 2013 Constitution...
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  • is Wakana Kadéne. The main language spoken by the inhabitants is the indigenous Nengoné language and the French language. "Maré". Direction des Infrastructures...
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    are: Drehu, Nengone, Paicî, Ajië, and Xârâcùù. People living around Nouméa prior to French settlement spoke Ndrumbea. The other languages are spoken by...
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  • Malfaxal (Malvaxal), also known as Na'ahai, is one of the many languages of the Malekula Coast group of Vanuatu. Malfaxal at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)...
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    faʻa Sāmoa or Gagana Sāmoa, pronounced [ŋaˈŋana ˈsaːmʊa]) is a Polynesian language spoken by Samoans of the Samoan Islands. Administratively, the islands...
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  • Pascuan (/ˈpæskjuən/) or Pascuense, is an Eastern Polynesian language of the Austronesian language family. It is spoken on Easter Island, also known as Rapa...
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    Polynesian languages form a genealogical group of languages, itself part of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian family. There are 38 Polynesian languages, representing...
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  • striking feature of the Marquesan languages is their almost universal replacement of the /r/ or /l/ of other Polynesian languages by a /ʔ/ (glottal stop). Like...
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  • Lamen (Lamenu, Varmali) is an Oceanic language spoken on Epi Island, in Vanuatu. Materials on Lamenu are included in the open access Arthur Capell collections...
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  • Oceanic language spoken on Epi Island, in Vanuatu. Maii at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) Tryon, D. "Mae-Morae and the languages of Epi...
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  • Ajië (also known as Houailou (Wailu), Wai, and A'jie) is an Oceanic language spoken in New Caledonia. It has approximately 4,000 speakers. A glottal stop...
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  • pronunciation: /ˈtɒŋ(ɡ)ən/ TONG-(g)ən; lea fakatonga) is an Austronesian language of the Polynesian branch native to the island nation of Tonga. It has around...
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  • Maewo, also known as Peterara after one of its dialects, is an Oceanic language spoken on Maewo, Vanuatu. Alternate names for Sungwadaga include Central...
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  • Dobu or Dobuan is an Austronesian language spoken in Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. It is a lingua franca for 100,000 people in D'Entrecasteaux...
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  • North Efate, also known as Nakanamanga or Nguna, is an Oceanic language spoken on the northern area of Efate in Vanuatu, as well as on a number of islands...
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  • Mutu, or Tuam (Mutu-Tuam), is an Austronesian language of Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. Mutu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)...
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  • Bil Bil is an Austronesian language spoken by about 1,200 people near Madang town, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. Bil Bil at Ethnologue (18th ed.,...
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  • (/tʃuːˈkiːz/), also rendered Trukese (/trʌˈkiːz/), is a Chuukic language of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily on the islands of Chuuk in the Caroline...
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  • Wagap) is an Oceanic language spoken on the island of New Caledonia, in the area of Poindimié, Koné, and Touho. The language has approximately 3,300...
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  • nearly-extinct language spoken on the island of Utupua, in the easternmost province of the Solomon Islands. Tryon, Darrell (1994). "Language contact and...
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  • Awad Bing, or Biliau, is an Austronesian language spoken by about 1,100 people in seven villages near Astrolabe Bay, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea...
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  • Marovo is an Austronesian language of the Solomon Islands. It is spoken in the New Georgia Group on islands in Marovo Lagoon and on the neighbouring islands...
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  • Suau, also known as Iou, is an Oceanic language spoken in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken by 6,800 people and a further 14,000...
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