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KDK

threatened

Alternate Names: Dialectes de l’Extreme Sud, Duauru, Kapone, Kunie, Kwenyii, Naa Numee, Naa-Wee, Ouen, Touaouru, Truaru, Tuauru, Uen, Wen, Xere

Dialects: Kwenyii (Kunie), Numee (Touaouru), Ouen.

Genealogy:

Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
Oceanic
Central-Eastern Oceanic
Remote Oceanic
New Caledonian
Southern
Extreme Southern

Demographics: 2,180 (2009 census).

Language Use: Positive attitudes.

Language Development: Grammar.

Typology: Tonal.

Nation of Origin: New Caledonia

Other Comments: Distinct from Nume , of Vanuatu. Some regard Kwenyii (Isle of Pines) a distinct language, probably more on sociolinguistic than purely linguistic grounds. Christian.