Nengone is a language of the

Loyalty Islands The Loyalty Islands Province (French ''Province des îles Loyauté'') is one of three administrative subdivisions of New Caledonia encompassing the Loyalty Island (french: Îles Loyauté) archipelago in the Pacific, which are located northeast of ...

, New Caledonia.

Phonology

The phonological inventory of consonants is untypically large for an Oceanic language. Many sounds which are

allophones In phonology, an allophone (; from the Greek , , 'other' and , , 'voice, sound') is a set of multiple possible spoken soundsor ''phones''or signs used to pronounce a single phoneme in a particular language. For example, in English, (as in '' ...

in other sub-families are distinct

phoneme In phonology and linguistics, a phoneme () is a unit of sound that can distinguish one word from another in a particular language. For example, in most dialects of English, with the notable exception of the West Midlands and the north-wes ...

s in the Nengone language: Tryon, Darrell T. ''Nengone grammar''. B-6, x + 101 pages. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1967. Phonemes in parentheses only occur in words borrowed from other languages.

Bibliography

*Tryon, D.T. and Dubois, M.J. ''Nengone dictionary. Part I: Nengone-English''. C-9, viii + 452 pages. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1969. *Tryon, D.T. and Dubois, M.J. ''Nengone dictionary. Part II: English-Nengone''. C-23, iv + 205 pages. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1971.

References

Loyalty Islands languages Languages of New Caledonia {{SOceanic-lang-stub