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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Pacific > New Caledonia > Ajië

Ajië

A language of New Caledonia

ISO 639-3aji

Population  4,040 (1996 census).
Region  Houailou: east coast Monéo to Kouaoua and inland valleys.
Language map  New Caledonia
Alternate names   A’jie, Anjie, Houailou, Wai, Wailu
Classification  Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, New Caledonian, Southern, South, Wailic
Language use  Language of wider communication. Vigorous.
Language development  Secondary and junior college levels and various other schools. Grammar. NT: 1922.
Writing system  Latin script.
Comments  Regional and ‘church language’.