Iaai language

Iaai
Iaai
Hwen iaai
Region	Ouvéa Island, New Caledonia
Native speakers	4,100 (2009 census)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southern Oceanic New Caledonian – Loyalties Loyalty Islands Iaai; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	iai
Glottolog	iaai1238
	Iaai is not endangered according to the classification system of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Iaai (Iaai pronunciation: [jaːi] in English as /ˈjaɪ/ Y-EYE) is a language of Ouvéa Island (New Caledonia). It shares the island of Ouvéa with Fagauvea, a Polynesian outlier language.

Iaai is the sixth-most-spoken language of New Caledonia, with 4078 speakers as of 2009. It is taught in schools in an effort to preserve it.

The language has been studied by linguists Françoise Ozanne-Rivierre and Anne-Laure Dotte.

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