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.

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	v	w	(l)	j		h
	Voiceless	f	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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