New Caledonian languages

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Mainland New Caledonian
Geographic
distribution:		 New Caledonia
Genetic
classification:		 Austronesian
 Malayo-Polynesian (MP)
  Nuclear MP
   Central-Eastern MP
    Eastern MP
     Oceanic
      Central-Eastern
       Southern Oceanic
        Nuclear Southern Oceanic
         South Efate-Southern Melanesian
          Southern Melanesian
           New Caledonian
            Mainland New Caledonian
Subdivisions:
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The thirty Mainland New Caledonian languages form a branch of the Southern Melanesian languages.. Their speakers are known as Kanaks.

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