Cèmuhî language
| Cemuhî | |
|---|---|
| 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
- ↑ Cemuhî at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Cemuhi". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Rivierre (1972, 1980).
Bibliography
- Rivierre, Jean-Claude (1972). Les Tons de la langue de Touho (Nouvelle-Calédonie) : Etude diachronique. Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris, 1972, vol.67, n°1, p. 301-316.
- Rivierre, Jean-Claude (1980). La Langue de Touho : Phonologie et grammaire du Cèmuhî (Nouvelle-Calédonie). Paris: Société d'Etudes Linguistiques et Anthropologiques de France. p. 363.
- Rivierre, Jean-Claude (1983). Dictionnaire cèmuhî – français, suivi d'un lexique français – cèmuhî. Paris: Société d'Etudes Linguistiques et Anthropologiques de France. p. 375.
External links
- Information on Cèmuhî, with a list of references and access to recorded texts (website of LACITO-CNRS)
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