Family / Group : Austronesian, Oceanic
Area : New Caledonia (Pacific)
Type : agglutinative; split accusative-ergative alignment
Inflectional language : Yes
Language with gender : No
Sources of lexicon : Homolexical
Language with sortal classifiers : Yes
Syntactics for numerals : CLF-NUM N (or) N CLF-NUM
Specific traits : VOS (VSO) with nouns, sVo with pronouns
Numeration base : Decimal, Vigesimal, Quinaire
Comments : 900 speakers, endangered.