Ndrumbea language

Ndrumbea
Ndrumbea
Naa Dubea
Native to	New Caledonia
Region	Southern tip outside Nouméa (Paita on the west coast, Ounia on the east coast)
Native speakers	(2,000 cited 1996 census)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southern Oceanic New Caledonian – Loyalties New Caledonian Southern Extreme Southern Ndrumbea; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	duf
Glottolog	dumb1241
	Ndrumbea is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Ndrumbea, variously spelled Ndumbea, Dubea, Drubea and Païta, is a New Caledonian language that gave its name to the capital of New Caledonia, Nouméa, and the neighboring town of Dumbéa. It has been displaced to villages outside the capital, with fewer than a thousand speakers remaining. Gordon (1995) estimates that there may only be two or three hundred. The Dubea are the people; the language has been called Naa Dubea (or more precisely Ṇã́ã Ṇḍùmbea) "language of Dubea".

Ndrumbea is one of the few Austronesian languages that is tonal, and it has a series of consonants that are also unusual for the region.

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