Iaai

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Iaai is an Oceanic language of the Austronesian family spoken primarily on Ouvéa Island in New Caledonia.

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Iaai canonical 1

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Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
belongsTo Melanesian linguistic area NERFINISHED
coexistsWith French
Tayo creole NERFINISHED
country France
glottocode iaai1240
hasAlternativeName Iaai language NERFINISHED
Ouvéa language NERFINISHED
hasDomain local administration in Ouvéa
oral tradition
hasMorphologicalFeature inclusive–exclusive distinction in first person plural
prepositional marking of grammatical relations
rich pronominal system
verb serialization
hasNeighborLanguage Drehu NERFINISHED
Nengone NERFINISHED
Xârâcùù
hasPhonologicalFeature complex consonant system
contrastive vowel length
labialized consonants
large vowel inventory
nasal vowels
palatalized consonants
phonemic tone (limited or marginal)
prenasalized stops
hasSyntacticFeature basic SVO word order
numeral classifiers
possessive classifiers
prepositions
iso639-3Code iai
isSubjectOf phonological studies by linguists such as François (Alexandre) and others
isTaughtIn some local schools on Ouvéa
languageFamily Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian
languageStatus endangered
vulnerable
locatedInTimeZone UTC+11
region Loyalty Islands NERFINISHED
spokenIn France NERFINISHED
New Caledonia NERFINISHED
Ouvéa Island NERFINISHED
subfamily Oceanic
subgroup Loyalty Islands languages NERFINISHED
usedBy Iaai people NERFINISHED
usedIn traditional culture of Ouvéa
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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