Trukic languages
| Trukic | |
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| Geographic distribution: |
Micronesia |
| Linguistic classification: | Austronesian
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| Subdivisions: |
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The Trukic languages are a dialect continuum of Micronesian languages, conventionally divided into a dozen languages.
[edit] Components
The database[citation needed] seems to say that Sonsorol is the most divergent of the Trukese languages. However, the results are defective and it is not clear that they support a Trukese classification at all.[1] Nonetheless, Sonsorol has traditionally been classified as a Trukese language, and has limited intelligibility with Woleaian, the closest of the continuum. Tobian is close enough to Sonsorol to often be considered a dialect:
Except for Satawalese and Mortlockese, which are very close, the subgrouping of the remainder of the languages is not reliable (85% probability). They are,
- Chuukese
- Woleaian and Ulithian
- Puluwatese, Namonuito, and Tanapag
- Carolinian
- Satawalese and Mortlockese
The only Trukese language not included in the database is Pááfang.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Note that Chuukese/Trukese, Woleai/Woleaian, and Carolinian/Saipan Carolinian are each listed twice, under different names and at different positions. They are separated by Sonsorol, which is given the name Pulo-Anna, for one of its dialects.
