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Paicî is the most
widely spoken of the two
dozen languages on the main
island of New Caledonia. It is
spoken in a band
across the
center of the island...
- endangered, and
another five are
vulnerable to extinction. The Cèmuhî,
Paicî, Drubea, Numèè, and
Kwenyii languages are tonal.
Other than phonemically...
- and harmonies.
Kaneka often has
political lyrics and is sung in Drehu,
Paici or
other Melanesian languages, or in French. In German, the
racial epithet...
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languages Navajo Ndyuka Nepali Nheengatu Occitan Old
Norse Oriya Pahang Malay Paicî Polish Portuguese Punjabi San
Andres y
Providencia Creole Saramaccan Scottish...
- ISBN 978-0415114943 Gordon,
Matthew J.; Maddieson, Ian (1996), "The
phonetics of
Paici", in Maddieson, Ian (ed.), UCLA
working papers in phonetics:
Fieldwork studies...
- ISBN 978-3-411-04067-4 Gordon,
Matthew J.; Maddieson, Ian (1996), "The
phonetics of
Paici", in Maddieson, Ian (ed.), UCLA
working papers in phonetics:
Fieldwork studies...
- have
produced oral stops. In some
languages with
nasal vowels, such as
Paicĩ,
nasal consonants may
occur only
before nasal vowels;
before oral vowels...
- Creole, Shimaore, Tahitian, Marquesan, 'Uvean, ****unan, Drehu, Nengone,
Paicî, Ajië, Javanese, and 35
other native languages of New
Caledonia Demonym(s)...
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indigenous languages are
Drehu (spoken in Lifou),
Nengone (spoken on Maré) and
Paicî (northern part of
Grande Terre).
Others include Iaai (spoken on Ouvéa)....
- all of
which can
contrast in both
length and nasality. Like its
neighbour Paicî, Cèmuhî is one of the few
Austronesian languages which have
developed contrastive...
