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

Numee

A language of New Caledonia

ISO 639-3kdk

Population  1,810 (1996 census).
Region  Yate, Touaouru, and Goro on main island south coast (Numee dialect), Isle Ouen (Ouen), and Isle of Pines (Kwenyii).
Language map  New Caledonia
Alternate names   Duauru, Kapone, Kunie, Kwenyii, Naa Numee, Naa-Wee, Ouen, Touaouru, Tuauru, Uen, Wen
Dialects  Numee (Touaouru), Ouen, Kwenyii (Kunie).
Classification  Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, New Caledonian, Southern, Extreme Southern
Language development  Grammar.
Comments  Distinct from Nume [tgs] of Vanuatu. Tonal.