Chuukese language
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| Chuukese | |
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| Native to | Federated States of Micronesia |
| Region | Chuuk |
| Native speakers | 48,200 (2000 census) |
| Language family |
Austronesian
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| Official status | |
| Official language in | Federated States of Micronesia |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | chk |
| ISO 639-3 | chk |
Chuukese /tʃuːˈkiːz/, also rendered Trukese /trʌˈkiːz/,[1] is a Trukic language of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily on the islands of Chuuk in the Caroline Islands in Micronesia. There are some speakers on Pohnpei and Guam as well. Estimates place the number of speakers at about 45,000 including second-language speakers.
Chuukese has the unusual feature of permitting word-initial geminate (double) consonants. The common ancestor of Western Micronesian languages is believed to have had this feature, but most of its modern descendants have lost it.[2]
References [edit]
- ^ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh
- ^ "Reflexes of initial gemination in Western Micronesian languages" (PDF). PDF file. Retrieved 8 September 2005.
External links [edit]
- Chuukese language at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
- Chuukese Wordlist at the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database
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