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

Dehu

A language of New Caledonia

ISO 639-3dhv

Population  11,300 (1996 census).
Region  Lifou, Loyalty Islands.
Language map  New Caledonia
Alternate names   De’u, Drehu, Lifou, Lifu
Dialects  Losi, Wete.
Classification  Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, Loyalty Islands
Language use  Vigorous.
Language development  Taught at secondary and junior college levels and various other schools. Dictionary. Grammar. Bible: 1890.
Writing system  Latin script.
Comments  Word order depends on tense.