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Nyelâyu (Yâlayu), also known as Nyalâyu, is a Kanak language of northern New Caledonia, spoken by approximately 2,000 speakers. There are two dialects that are not mutually intelligible. Pooc (or Haat) is spoken in the Belep islands, which are located just north of Grande Terre. Puma (or Paak or Ovac) is spoken in the northernmost regions of New Caledonia in the areas around Poum in the west and Pouébo and Balade in the east.

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Nyelâyu
Pronunciation	[jãlɑjʊ]
Native to	New Caledonia
Native speakers	2,000 (2009 census)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southern Oceanic New Caledonian – Loyalties New Caledonian Northern New Caledonian Extreme Northern Nyelâyu
Dialects	Tiari-Balade Belep Arama
Language codes
ISO 639-3	yly
Glottolog	nyal1254  Nyalayu/Belep bala1316  Balade
ELP	Belep

Phonology

Consonants

		Labiovelar	Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Stops	plain	pʷ	p	t	c	k
	aspirated	pʰʷ	pʰ	tʰ	cʰ	kʰ
	prenasalized	ᵐbʷ	ᵐb	ⁿd	ᶮɟ	ᵑg
Nasals	plain	mʷ	m	n	ɲ	ŋ
	aspirated	mʰʷ	mʰ	nʰ	ɲʰ
Fricatives			β			ɣ (x)	h
Semivowels	plain		w		j
	aspirated		wʰ		jʰ
Trill				r
Laterals				l lʰ l᷉

Voiceless stops, nasals, and approximants exhibit a contrast of aspiration exhibited in the following examples.

• pe [pe] "ray fish" || phe [pʰe] "sharpening stone"
• teec [teec] "scorching" || theec [tʰeec] "washed up"
• nu [nu] "coconut palm" || nhu [nʰu] "hot"

Aspirated consonants are very subtly marked. Aspiration seems to be a prosodic trait that affects the overall realization of the syllable by lowering the register of the voice. [2]

Vowels

Oral Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i (y) iː		u uː
Mid	e (ø) eː		o oː
Open	a aː

Nasal Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	ĩ ĩː		ũ ũː
Mid	ẽ ẽː		õ õː
Open	ã ãː

The vowels /y/ and /ø/ are in parentheses, because they are very rare and appear only in a few words. [2]

Notes

References

• Ozanne-Rivierre, Françoise (1998). Le Nyelâyu de Balade (Nouvelle-Calédonie). Paris: Peeters Press.
• McCracken, Chelsea (2013). A grammar of Belep (Doctor of Philosophy thesis). Rice University. hdl:1911/71287.

На других языках

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- [en] Nyâlayu language

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[fr] Nyelâyu

Le nyelâyu, ou yâlayu, est une langue kanak, parlée par moins de 2 000 locuteurs (1996) au nord de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Il est classé dans la branche océanienne des langues austronésiennes, plus précisément dans le sous-groupe Nord du groupe néo-calédonien.

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