Vamale language

Not to be confused with Hmwaveke language.
Vamale
Hmwaeke
Native to New Caledonia
Native speakers
100 (from 2009 census)[1]
Dialects
  • Vamale
  • Hmwaeke
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mkt
Glottolog vama1243[2]

Vamale (Pamale) is a Kanak language of northern New Caledonia. Hmwaeke dialect is nearly extinct.

References

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



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