Ouvéa ( local pronunciation: [uˈve.a] ) or Uvea is a commune in the Loyalty Islands Province of New Caledonia , an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean . The settlement of Fayaoué [faˈjawe] , on Ouvéa Island, is the administrative centre of the commune.
14-650: Ouvéa is made up of Ouvéa Island , the smaller Mouli Island and Faiava Island , and several islets around these three. All lie among the Loyalty Islands, to the northeast of New Caledonia's mainland. Ouvea has been recognised as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports populations of red-bellied fruit doves , Ouvea parakeets , grey-eared honeyeaters , New Caledonian friarbirds , cardinal myzomelas , fan-tailed gerygones , long-tailed trillers , streaked fantails , Melanesian flycatchers and striated starlings . Ouvéa has
28-593: A tropical monsoon climate ( Köppen climate classification Am ). The average annual temperature in Ouvéa is 24.6 °C (76.3 °F). The average annual rainfall is 1,345.3 mm (52.96 in) with March as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in February, at around 27.4 °C (81.3 °F), and lowest in July, at around 21.6 °C (70.9 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in Ouvéa
42-451: A cave by supporters of the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front . Twelve of the captured gendarmes were released after a while, but six members of a French anti-terrorist squad were also taken hostage. When negotiations to release the hostages did not succeed, French security forces besieged the cave and freed them. Eighteen Kanaks and two gendarmes were left dead. In the aftermath it
56-490: A land based species and do not venture into the ocean. Ouvéa is also home to trophy bonefish that inhabit the nutrient rich "flats" of the atoll. This New Caledonian location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Iaai language Iaai ( Iaai pronunciation: [jaːi] in English as / ˈ j aɪ / Y-EYE ) is a language of Ouvéa Island ( New Caledonia ). It shares
70-549: A larger atoll , is 50 km (31 mi) long and 7 km (4.3 mi) wide. It lies north east of Grande Terre , New Caledonia's mainland. Ouvéa is a Polynesian outlier originally settled by Polynesian navigators who named it for their home island, Uvea Island . Some of their descendants still speak the West Uvean language . Ouvéa is home to around 3,000 people who are organized into tribes divided into Polynesians and Melanesians by ethnic descent. The Iaai language
84-511: A rich variety of voiceless nasals and approximants. Iaai has ten vowel qualities, all of which may occur long and short. There is little difference in quality depending on length. Iaai constitutes one of the few cases of front rounded vowels attested outside of their geographic stronghold in Eurasia , even if other cases have since been reported in the Oceanic family. The vowel /ø øː/
98-724: A very short voice onset time . However, the apical post-alveolar and laminal palatal stops /ʈ, ɖ, c, ɟ/ have substantially fricated releases [ʈᶳ, ɖᶼ, cᶜ̧, ɟᶨ] , and may be better described as sounds between proper stops and affricates. The labial approximants are placed in their respective columns following their phonological behaviour (their effects on following vowels), but there is evidence that all members of these series are either labial-palatal or labial-velar . /ɥ̊, ɥ/ are sometimes pronounced as weak fricatives [ɸʲ, βʲ] . In many cases, words with voiced and voiceless approximants are morphologically related, such as /liʈ/ "night" and /l̥iʈ/ "black". /h/ - and vowel-initial words have
112-612: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ouv%C3%A9a Island Ouvéa Island or Uvea Island is one of the Loyalty Islands , in the archipelago of New Caledonia , an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean . The island is part of the commune (municipality) of Ouvéa , in the Loyalty Islands Province of New Caledonia. The crescent-shaped island, which belongs to
126-580: Is a contrast between /æ æː/ and /a aː/ after /b p m m̥ f/ . The vowels /i e ø a o u/ are written with their IPA letters. /y/ is written û, /æ/ is written ë, /ɔ/ is written â, and /ɤ/ is written ö. Long vowels, which are twice as long as short vowels, are written double. Iaai has an unusual voicing distinction in its sonorants , as well as several coronal series. Unlike most languages of New Caledonia, voiced stops are not prenasalized . Unlike many languages with denti-alveolar stops, Iaai /t̪, d̪/ are released abruptly, and /t̪/ has
140-521: Is only known to occur in six words. In all of these but /ɲ̊øːk/ "dedicate", it appears between a labial (b, m) and velar (k, ŋ) consonant. After the non-labiovelarized labial consonants and the vowel /y yː/ , the vowel /ɔ ɔː/ is pronounced [œ œː] . The open vowels only contrast in a few environments. /æ æː/ only occurs after the plain labial consonants and the vowel /y yː/ , the same environment that produces [œ œː] . /a aː/ does not occur after /ɥ ɥ̊ y yː/ , but does occur elsewhere, so that there
154-470: Is spoken on the island. Ouvéa has rich marine resources and is home to many sea turtles, species of fish, coral as well as a native parrot, the Uvea parakeet , that can only be found on the island of Ouvéa. A large crustacean called the coconut crab or crabe de cocotier can also be found on the islands. The large blue crabs live in palm tree plantations and can grow to several kilos in size. They are
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#1732765024413168-409: The island of Ouvéa with Fagauvea , a Polynesian outlier language. Iaai is the sixth-most-spoken language of New Caledonia, with 4078 speakers as of 2009. It is taught in schools in an effort to preserve it. The language has been studied by linguists Françoise Ozanne-Rivierre and Anne-Laure Dotte. Iaai is remarkable for its large inventory of unusual phonemes, in particular its consonants, with
182-457: Was 35.3 °C (95.5 °F) on 7 February 2016; the coldest temperature ever recorded was 6.4 °C (43.5 °F) on 10 August 1981. Ouvéa is a Polynesian outlier originally settled by Polynesian navigators who named it for their home island, Uvea Island . Some of their descendants still speak the West Uvean language . In April 1988, a hostage taking took place on Ouvéa. Four gendarmes were killed and twenty-seven were held hostage in
196-655: Was alleged that three Kanaks had been executed or left to die after being arrested. The native languages of Ouvéa are the Melanesian Iaai and the Polynesian Faga Uvea , which is the only Polynesian language that has taken root in New Caledonia. Speakers of Faga Uvea have fully integrated into the Kanak society and consider themselves Kanak. This New Caledonian location article
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