Vamale | |
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Hmwaeke | |
Native to | New Caledonia |
Native speakers | 180 (from 2016)[1] |
Austronesian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | mkt |
Glottolog | vama1243 |
ELP | Vamale |
Vamale (Pamale) is a Kanak language of northern New Caledonia. The Hmwaeke dialect, spoken in Tiéta, is fusing with Haveke and nearly extinct.[2] Vamale is nowadays spoken in Tiendanite (called "Usa Vamale"), We Hava, Téganpaïk and Tiouandé. It was spoken in the Pamale valley and its tributaries Vawe and Usa until the colonial war of 1917, when its speakers were displaced.