Social:Zire language

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Short description: Extinct Austronesian language of New Caledonia
Zire
Nerë, sîchë
Sîshëë
RegionNew Caledonia
Ethnicity19 (2009 census)[1]
Extinct2006[2]
Austronesian
  • Malayo-Polynesian
    • Oceanic
      • Southern Oceanic
        • New Caledonian – Loyalties
          • New Caledonian
            • Southern
              • South Southern
                • Zire–Tiri
                  • Zire
Language codes
ISO 639-3sih
Glottologzire1240[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

  1. "Sîshëë". Ethnologue. https://www.ethnologue.com/18/language/sih/. 
  2. "UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in danger" (in en). http://www.unesco.org/languages-atlas/index.php. 
  3. 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.