The data used here are coming from a dictionnary made by Claire Moyse-Faurie & Marie-Adèle NECHERÖ-JOREDIE in 1989. It is presented in the book Dictionnaire Xârâcùù-Français (Nouvelle-Calédonie), Nouméa : Les Editions Populaires, 288 pp.
It provides a phonological, greographical, and sociolinguistical introduction to the Xârâcùù, language spoken in the Kouaoua-Canala-Thio areas (located on the east cost of the New Caledonia Main Land ('Grande-Terre').
This book, intended to speakers usage, provides two lexicons, one in xârâcùù-french, and one in french-xârâcùù.
Methodology used here to enter the lexical data:
The synonymy has been reduced by going through both lexicons.
When two words in Xârâcùù are presented with a slash (for instance "xãⁿdɨ/xãⁿdɤ", it means that those words are two morphological forms of the same word (generally related to geographical distribution of this word).
When both simple words and compound words are possible in Xârâcùù to translate a word in the list, we have opted for the simple words.
When a word is not phonologically autonomous (i.e being a prefix or a suffix), a dash has been put after the word (prefix) or before the word (suffix).
When a word in the list can not be translated by a single general item in xârâcùù, some semantic specifications for each one of them have been provided in the 'author annotation' column.