Nemi language

Nemi
Native to	Hienghène, New Caledonia
Native speakers	910 (2009 census)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southern Oceanic New Caledonian – Loyalties New Caledonian Northern New Caledonian North Northern Nemi languages Nemi; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nem
Glottolog	nemi1240[2]

The Nemi language is a Kanak language spoken by 320 people in the north of New Caledonia, in the commune of Hienghène.

Sample audio of spoken Nemi (intro and last part are French)

Phonology

Nemi features labiovelarized plosives and voiceless nasals^[3].

Consonants		Labial		Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Consonants		Bilabial	Labiovelar	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Stops	Tenuis	p	pʷˠ	t	c	k
Stops	Aspirated	pʰ	pʷˠʰ	tʰ		kʰ
Nasalized Stops	Prenasalized	ᵐp	ᵐpʷˠ	ⁿt	ᶮc	ᵑk
Nasalized Stops	Postnasalized	pᵐ	pʷˠᵐ	tⁿ	cᶮ	kᵑ
Nasals	Voiced	m	mʷˠ	n	ɲ	ŋ
Nasals	Voiceless	m̥	m̥ʷˠ	n̥	ɲ̥	ŋ̥
Continuants	Voiced	f	w	(l)	j		h
	Voiceless	v	w̥		j̥
	Nasal		w̃ w̥̃				h̃

Vowels in Nemi have a two way length distinction.

Vowels	Front	Middle	Back
High	i		u
Middle	e		o
Low		a

↑ Nemi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nemi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ Rivierre, Françoise. 1975. Phonologie du némi (Nouvelle-Calédonie) et notes sur les consonnes postnasalisées. Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris 70. 345-356.

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