Social:Pwapwâ language

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Short description: Austronesian language spoken in New Caledonia
Pwapwa
Native toVoh, New Caledonia
Native speakers
40 (2006 census)[1]
Austronesian
  • Malayo-Polynesian
    • Oceanic
      • Southern Oceanic
        • New Caledonian – Loyalties
          • New Caledonian
            • Northern New Caledonian
              • North Northern
                • ?
                  • Pwapwa
Language codes
ISO 639-3pop
Glottologpwap1237[2]
Lang Status 40-SE.svg
Pwapwâ is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Pwapwa (also known as Poapoa or Neukaledonien) is a nearly extinct New Caledonian language of New Caledonia, in the commune of Voh.

References

  1. Pwapwa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Pwapwa". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/pwap1237.