Paicî

E600739

Paicî is an indigenous Austronesian language spoken primarily in the central region of New Caledonia.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Paicî canonical 9
Paici 1
Païci 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (31)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Kanak language
Oceanic language
indigenous language
continent Oceania
country France
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicity Paicî people
hasAlternativeName Paici
Paicî language
Païci
hasGlottocode paic1240
hasLanguageTypology verb–subject–object
hasLinguisticArea Central New Caledonian languages
hasLinguisticClassificationSource Austronesian language classification
hasPhonologicalFeature complex consonant system
contrastive vowel length
rich vowel inventory
isIndigenousTo New Caledonia
ISO639-3 pri
languageBranch Oceanic
languageFamily Austronesian
languageGroup New Caledonian languages
languageSubfamily Malayo-Polynesian
region Province Nord
central Grande Terre
spokenIn New Caledonia
central region of New Caledonia
subclassOf New Caledonian language
usedBy indigenous communities of central New Caledonia
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Oceanic includesLanguage Paicî
Paicî language hasAlternativeName Paici
linked to: Paicî
Paicî language hasAlternativeName Païci
linked to: Paicî
Kanak speak Paicî
Jean-Marie Tjibaou languageSpoken Paicî
subject linked to: Tjibaou
Paicî people ethnonym Paicî