Fagauvea language

E168600

Fagauvea is an Oceanic language spoken primarily on Ouvéa Island in New Caledonia, known for its Polynesian-influenced features within a predominantly Melanesian linguistic area.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Fagauvea language canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
natural language
coexistsWith Drehu language
French language
linked to: French

Nengone language
Paicî language
country France
endangeredStatus vulnerable
hasAlternativeName Faga Uvea
Fagauvea
Ouvéa Uvean
Uvean (New Caledonia)
linked to: Ouvéa Uvean

Uvean of Ouvéa
West Uvean
hasGlottocode west2587
hasGlottologName West Uvean
hasISO639-3Code uve
hasMorphologicalType analytic
isolating
hasPhonologicalFeature five-vowel system
simple consonant inventory
hasWritingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet
influencedBy Polynesian languages
languageFamily Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Oceanic
locatedInLinguisticArea Melanesian linguistic area
minorityLanguageIn New Caledonia
primaryWordOrder SVO
region Loyalty Islands Province
New Caledonia
Ouvéa
linked to: Ouvéa Island
sharesFeaturesWith East Uvean language
Wallisian language
spokenByEthnicGroup Uvean people of Ouvéa
spokenIn France
Loyalty Islands
linked to: New Caledonia

New Caledonia
Ouvéa Island
subfamilyOf Austronesian languages
New Caledonian languages
Southern Oceanic languages
typologicalFeature Oceanic grammatical structure
Polynesian-influenced lexicon
Polynesian-influenced phonology
usedIn local education to a limited extent
local religious practices on Ouvéa
oral tradition on Ouvéa

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