Cèmuhî language

Cemuhî
Wagap
Native to	New Caledonia
Region	Touho: east coast from Congouma to Wagap and inland valleys
Native speakers	2,600 (2009)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southern Oceanic New Caledonian – Loyalties New Caledonian Northern New Caledonian Central Northern Cemuhî
Writing system	Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cam
Glottolog	cemu1238[2]

Cemuhî (Camuhi, Camuki, Tyamuhi, Wagap) is an Oceanic language spoken on the island of New Caledonia, in the area of Poindimié and Touho.

Characteristics

Like its neighbour Paicî, Cèmuhî is one of the few Austronesian languages which have developed contrastive tone.^[3]

See also

• Northern New Caledonian languages

Notes

1. Cemuhî at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Cemuhi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Rivierre (1972, 1980).

Bibliography

• Rivierre, Jean-Claude (1972). Les Tons de la langue de Touho (Nouvelle-Calédonie) : Etude diachronique. Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris, 1972, vol.67, n°1, p. 301-316.
• Rivierre, Jean-Claude (1980). La Langue de Touho : Phonologie et grammaire du Cèmuhî (Nouvelle-Calédonie). Paris: Société d'Etudes Linguistiques et Anthropologiques de France. p. 363.
• Rivierre, Jean-Claude (1983). Dictionnaire cèmuhî – français, suivi d'un lexique français – cèmuhî. Paris: Société d'Etudes Linguistiques et Anthropologiques de France. p. 375.

External links

• Information on Cèmuhî, with a list of references and access to recorded texts (website of LACITO-CNRS)