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Languages of New Caledonia

The Linguasphere Register records 9 entries for New Caledonia, spread across 2 of its ten sectors. Each row below links to the Register entry, where the sets, chains and individual languages underneath it can be opened.

9Register entries
2Sectors present
5Zones
1Language entries

3= AUSTRONESIAN 5= INDO-EUROPEAN

Register entries recorded in New Caledonia

CodeEntryLevelNote
31=FILIPINICZone
37=SOLOMO-NIUGINICZone
39=TRANSPACIFICZone
51-AAA-ipfrançais-d'océanieInnerlisted in geographic sequence
51-AAA-ipafrançais-caldocheVarietyspoken by community of French settlers in New Caledonia / Kanaky (or better treated as dialect of [51] Français-G.).
51-AAA-ipbfrançais-canaqueVarietyspoken as alternate language by primary speakers of languages in 37=Kanakic phylozone.
51=ROMANICZoneCovers the "Romance" or Italiano + Româneasca set, part of the "Indo-European" intercontinental affinity.
52-ANORSK + FRYSKSetGERMANIC,.
52=GERMANICZoneCovers the "Germanic" or Norsk + Frysk set, part of the "Indo-European" intercontinental affinity.

Country placements come from the geographic data published with the Linguasphere Register. They mark where a speech community is recorded, not where a language is official. See sources and attribution.