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

Zire

A language of New Caledonia

ISO 639-3sih

Population  4 (1996 census).
Region  Bourail, coastal plain.
Language map  New Caledonia
Alternate names   Nerë, Siche, Sirhe, Sîshëë, Zira
Classification  Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, New Caledonian, Southern, South, Zire-Tiri
Language development  Grammar.
Comments  Nearly extinct.