Vamale language

Vamale
	Hmwaeke
Native to	New Caledonia
Native speakers	100 (from 2009 census)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southern Oceanic New Caledonian – Loyalties New Caledonian Northern New Caledonian ? Vamale; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
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

Vamale at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Vamale". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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