Iaai (Iaai pronunciation: [jaːi]; English: /ˈjaɪ/ Y-EYE) is a language of Ouvéa Island (New Caledonia). It shares the island of Ouvéa with Fagauvea, a...

Iaai may refer to: Iaai language, an Austronesian language spoken in New Caledonia IAAI may be an acronym for: International Association of Arson Investigators...

(1994), "Phonetic Structures of Iaai" (PDF), UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 87: Fieldwork Studies of Targeted Languages II, Los Angeles: UCLA: 163–182...

retroflex consonants, and voiceless nasals. Loyalty Islands Drehu (Lifou Island) Iaai (Ouvéa Island) Nengone (Maré Island) Mainland New Caledonian Southern New...

(1994), "Phonetic Structures of Iaai" (PDF), UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 87: Fieldwork Studies of Targeted Languages II, Los Angeles: UCLA: 163–182...

ø and ǫ > ø. The Iaai language uses the letter ⟨ø⟩ to represent the sound [ø]. ⟨Ø⟩ is used in the orthographies of several languages of Africa, such as...

Iai may refer: Purari language (New Guinea), also known as I'ai Iaai language (New Caledonia) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with...

endangered Polynesian language of the Austronesian language family, originating in and native to the Hawaiian Islands. It is the native language of the Hawaiian...

counterpart /ɭ̊ / in Iaai and Toda. In both of these languages it also contrasts with more anterior /l̥, l/, which are dental in Iaai and alveolar in Toda...

Dravidian languages, but are found in other languages of the region as well, such as the Munda languages and Burushaski. The Nuristani languages of eastern...

Uvean language. Ouvéa is home to around 3,000 people who are organized into tribes divided into Polynesians and Melanesians by ethnic descent. The Iaai language...

an extremely rare type of consonantal sound, used in very few spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this...

Nengone language § Phonology. See Help:IPA and Iaai language § Phonology. See Help:IPA and Ndrumbea language § Phonology. See Help:IPA and Drehu language §...

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...

distinguish the language from the related East Uvean or Wallisian, spoken on Wallis Island (ʻUvea). West Uvean has long been in contact with Iaai, the Southern...

Tungaru), is an Austronesian language spoken mainly in Kiribati. It belongs to the Micronesian branch of the Oceanic languages. The word Kiribati, the current...

Polynesian languages form a genealogical group of languages, itself part of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian family. There are 38 Polynesian languages, representing...

faʻa Sāmoa or Gagana Sāmoa, pronounced [ŋaˈŋana ˈsaːmʊa]) is a Polynesian language spoken by Samoans of the Samoan Islands. Administratively, the islands...

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...

attested by Bruhn include ⟨ia⟩, ⟨iaa⟩, ⟨ie⟩, ⟨io⟩, ⟨iu⟩, ⟨ior⟩, ⟨iai⟩, ⟨iaai⟩, ⟨iau⟩, ⟨iaau⟩, ⟨iei⟩, ⟨iou⟩, ⟨ua⟩, ⟨uaa⟩, ⟨uae⟩, ⟨ue⟩, ⟨ui⟩, ⟨uo⟩, ⟨uai⟩...

Pascuan (/ˈpæskjuən/) or Pascuense, is an Eastern Polynesian language of the Austronesian language family. It is spoken on Easter Island, also known as Rapa...

arrested. The native languages of Ouvéa are the Melanesian Iaai and the Polynesian Faga Uvea, which is the only Polynesian language that has taken root...

is an Austronesian language, spoken natively in the island country of Nauru. Its relationship to the other Micronesian languages is not well understood...

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...

Malayo-Polynesian (CEMP) languages form a proposed branch of the Malayo-Polynesian languages consisting of over 700 languages (Blust 1993). The Central...

e vagahau Niuē) is a Polynesian language, belonging to the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Austronesian languages. It is most closely related to Tongan...

[kɑzʲinʲ(i)mˠɑːzʲɛlˠ]), also known as Ebon, is a Micronesian language spoken in the Marshall Islands. The language of the Marshallese people, it is spoken by nearly...

palatalized consonants, so that нёс 'he carried' is phonetically [nᶣɵs]. Iaai has a voiceless labialized palatal approximant /ɥ̊/. Truly co-articulated...

Islands languages. The Yapese language refers to the language spoken specifically on the Yap Main Islands, and does not include the Chuukic languages spoken...

([ɖehu]; also known as Dehu, Lifou, Lifu, qene drehu) is an Austronesian language mostly spoken on Lifou Island, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia. It has about...