Cèmuhî language

Cèmuhî
Wagap
Native to New Caledonia
Region Touho: east coast from Congouma to Wagap and inland valleys
Native speakers
2,600 (2009)[1]
Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-3 cam
Glottolog cemu1238[2]

Cemuhî (Camuhi, Camuki, Tyamuhi, Wagap) is an Oceanic language spoken on the island of New Caledonia, in the area of Poindimié and Touho.

Characteristics

Like its neighbour Paicî, Cèmuhî is one of the few Austronesian languages which have developed contrastive tone.[3]

See also

Notes

  1. Cèmuhî at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Cemuhi". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Rivierre (1972, 1980).

Bibliography


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