Social:Zire language
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Short description: Extinct Austronesian language of New Caledonia
| Zire | |
|---|---|
| Nerë, sîchë | |
| Sîshëë | |
| Region | New Caledonia |
| Ethnicity | 19 (2009 census)[1] |
| Extinct | 2006[2] |
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sih |
| Glottolog | zire1240[3] |
Zire (Sîshëë), also known as Nerë, is an extinct Oceanic language of New Caledonia. It has been extinct since April 2006. Zire is sometimes considered a dialect of Ajië.
References
- ↑ "Sîshëë". Ethnologue. https://www.ethnologue.com/18/language/sih/.
- ↑ "UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in danger" (in en). http://www.unesco.org/languages-atlas/index.php.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Zire". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/zire1240.
