Waamwang language

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Waamwang
Native to Voh, New Caledonia
Extinct (date missing)
Austronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3 wmn
Glottolog waam1236 [1]

Waamwang (Wamoang) is an extinct Kanak language of New Caledonia, in the commune of Voh. [2]

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The thirty New Caledonian languages form a branch of the Southern Oceanic languages. Their speakers are known as Kanaks. One language is extinct, one is critically endangered, 4 are severely endangered, 5 are endangered, and another 5 are vulnerable to extinction.

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Waamwang". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Waamwang at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)