Fwâi language

Fwâi
Native to	Hienghène, New Caledonia
Native speakers	1,900 (2009 census)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southern Oceanic New Caledonian – Loyalties New Caledonian Northern New Caledonian North Northern Nemi Fwâi; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	fwa
Glottolog	fwai1237[2]

Fwâi (Poai) is a Kanak language of New Caledonia, in the commune of Hienghène.

References

Fwâi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Fwai". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Haudricourt, André-Georges; Ozanne-Rivierre, Françoise (1982). Dictionnaire thématique des langues de la région de Hienghène (Nouvelle-Calédonie) : pije, fwâi, nemi, jawe. Précédé d'une phonologie comparée des langues de Hienghène et du proto-océanien. Paris: Société d'Etudes Linguistiques et Anthropologiques de France. p. 285. ISBN 978-2852971349.

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