Mare Island language

E830261

Mare Island language, also known as Nengone, is an Oceanic Austronesian language spoken primarily on Maré Island in New Caledonia.

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Label Occurrences
Mare Island language canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
language
alternateName Mare
Nengone
Nengoné
linked to: Nengone
closelyRelatedTo Drehu
Iaai
country France
ethnologueName Nengone
glottologName Nengone
hasBasicWordOrder SVO
hasDialects northern Nengone
southern Nengone
hasDomainUsage local education (limited)
local media (radio, print)
religious activities
hasGlottocode neng1240
hasLinguisticTypology head-initial
prepositional language
hasLoanwordsFrom French language
hasMorphologicalType mostly analytic
hasNumberSystem decimal
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive nasal and oral vowels
simple consonant inventory typical of Oceanic languages
hasStatus minority language in New Caledonia
influencedBy French language
ISO639-3Code nen
languageFamily Austronesian languages
Loyalty Islands languages
Malayo-Polynesian languages
New Caledonian–Loyalty Islands languages
Oceanic languages
Southern Oceanic languages
partOf Loyalty Islands linguistic area
region Melanesia
South Pacific
riskStatus vulnerable
spokenIn Loyalty Islands
Maré Island NERFINISHED
New Caledonia
usedBy indigenous population of Maré Island
usedFor daily communication on Maré Island
usedIn traditional oral literature of Maré Island
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Nengone hasAlternativeName Mare Island language