Numèè language

Numèè
Kwényi
Naa Numee
Native toNew Caledonia
RegionNouméa, Isle of Pines
Native speakers
2,200 (2009 census)[1]
Austronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3kdk
Glottolognume1242[2]

Numèè (Naa Numee, Naa-Wee), or Kwényi (Kwenyii), is a New Caledonian language, the one spoken at the southern tip of the island, as well as on the Isle of Pines offshore. Despite its name, it is probably not the language that gave its name to the capital of New Caledonia, Nouméa; that seems to have been its close relative Ndrumbea, which used to be spoken there. Like Ndrumbea, Numee is one of the few Austronesian languages with tones.

References

  1. ^ Numèè at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Numee". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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