Language name: | IAI |
UPSID number: | 2422 |
Alternate name(s): | IAAI |
Classification: | Austro-Tai, East Malayo-Polynesian |
This language has | 52 segments |
Its Frequency index is | 0.254690432 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
The language has these sounds: | p b "t "d t. d. gb k g m "n n. nj Nm N hm hn. hNm hN tS dZ P B f 0D 6D "s S x h l. hl. hw w rA i e aa O o u y i: e: aa: O: o: u: E E: E) hnj |
Comment: | Iai is spoken in Ouvea Island, Loyality Islands in New Caledonia. |
Source(s): | Haudricourt, A.G. 1971. New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands. Current Trends in Linguistics (T. Sebeok ed.) 8: 359-396. Ozanne-Rivierre, F. 1976. Le Iaai. SELAF, Paris. Tryon, D.T. 1968. Iai Grammar (Pacific Linguistics, Series B, 8). Australian National University, Canberra. |