Fagauvea language

E168600

Fagauvea is an Oceanic language spoken primarily on Ouvéa Island in New Caledonia, known for its Polynesian-influenced features within a predominantly Melanesian linguistic area.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Fagauvea language canonical 1

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Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
natural language
coexistsWith Drehu language
French
surface form: French language

Nengone language
Paicî language
country France
endangeredStatus vulnerable
hasAlternativeName Faga Uvea
Fagauvea
Ouvéa Uvean
Ouvéa Uvean
surface form: Uvean (New Caledonia)

Uvean of Ouvéa
West Uvean
hasGlottocode west2587
hasGlottologName West Uvean
hasISO639-3Code uve
hasMorphologicalType analytic
isolating
hasPhonologicalFeature five-vowel system
simple consonant inventory
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
influencedBy Polynesian languages
languageFamily Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian languages
surface form: Malayo-Polynesian

Oceanic
locatedInLinguisticArea Melanesian linguistic area
minorityLanguageIn New Caledonia
primaryWordOrder SVO
region Loyalty Islands Province
New Caledonia
Ouvéa Island
surface form: Ouvéa
sharesFeaturesWith East Uvean language
Wallisian language
spokenByEthnicGroup indigenous peoples of the Loyalty Islands
surface form: Uvean people of Ouvéa
spokenIn France
New Caledonia
surface form: Loyalty Islands

New Caledonia
Ouvéa Island
subfamilyOf Austronesian languages
New Caledonian–Loyalty languages
surface form: New Caledonian languages

Southern Oceanic languages
typologicalFeature Oceanic grammatical structure
Polynesian-influenced lexicon
Polynesian-influenced phonology
usedIn local education to a limited extent
local religious practices on Ouvéa
oral tradition on Ouvéa

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