Iaai language

Iaai
Hwen iaai
Pronunciation	[jaːi]
Region	Ouvéa Island, New Caledonia
Native speakers	4,100 (2009 census)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southern Oceanic New Caledonian – Loyalties Loyalty Islands Iaai
Language codes
ISO 639-3	iai
Glottolog	iaai1238
Iaai is not endangered according to the classification system of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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Iaai (Iaai pronunciation: [jaːi] in English as /ˈjaɪ/ Y-EYE) is a language of Ouvéa Island (New Caledonia). It shares the island of Ouvéa with Fagauvea, a Polynesian outlier language.

Iaai is the sixth-most-spoken language of New Caledonia, with 4078 speakers as of 2009.^[2] It is taught in schools in an effort to preserve it.

The language has been studied by linguists Françoise Ozanne-Rivierre and Anne-Laure Dotte.