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

Tayo

A language of New Caledonia

ISO 639-3cks

Population  2,000 (1996 C. Corne).
Region  South, Ploum, Mont-Dore, and especially Saint Louis, near Noumea.
Language map  New Caledonia
Alternate names   Patois, Patois de St-Louis
Dialects  Not intelligible with French.
Classification  Creole, French based
Language use  Used as L1 by some also bilingual in French, and as L2 by others, mainly Wallis Islanders.
Language development  Grammar.