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Haveke (also known as Aveke or 'Aveke) is a Kanak language of
New Caledonia New Caledonia ( ; ) is a group of islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean, southwest of Vanuatu and east of Australia. Located from Metropolitan France, it forms a Overseas France#Sui generis collectivity, ''sui generis'' collectivity of t ...
, in the commune of Voh. Bwatoo dialect is distinct. The language is considered endangered with 300 native speakers worldwide reported in 1982. That number gets lower due to the expansion of French in New Caledonia. There are virtually no children speakers of Havake.


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Further reading

* Rivierre, Jean-Claude; Ehrhart, Sabine; Diela, Raymond (2006)
Le bwatoo et les dialectes de la région de Koné (Nouvelle-Calédonie) (in French)
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