Chuukesian language
| Chuukesian | ||
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Spoken in |
Chuuk (Atoll) , Federated States of Micronesia | |
| speaker | 38,000 | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in |
 Micronesia
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
chk |
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| ISO 639-3 | ||
Chuukesian (also Chuuk, Ruk, formerly Trukesisch; Truk) is a language of the Chuuk Islands (until 1990 "Truk"), which belongs to the Austronesian language family (Malayo-Polynesian). Chuukesian is spoken by 38,000 residents. ( Federated States of Micronesia )
Obvious dialects (with a lexical equivalent of around 70–85%) are: Mortlockese , Puluwatesian , Satawalese , Carolinian , Woleaian , Mokilese and Ulithic .
alphabet
Chuuke is written in a Latin script with nine vowels (A a, Á á, E e, É é, I i, O o, Ó ó, U u, Ú ú) and 14 consonants (F f, S s, K k, M m, Mw mw, N n, Ng ng, P p, Pw pw, R r, Ch ch, T t, W w, Y y).
pronunciation
Chuukesian has the special feature that it allows the use of double consonants at the beginning of a word. The common ancestor of the Western Micronesian languages is believed to have had this trait, but most of its modern descendants have lost it.
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| a | á | e | é | i | O | O | u | ú | f | ff | s | ss | k | kk | m | mm | mw | mmw | n | ng | nng | p | pp | pw | ppw | r | ch | t | dd | w | y |
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| [ ɐ ] | [ a ] | [ e ] | [ ə ] | [ i ] | [ o ] | [ ɑ ] | [ u ] | [ ɨ ] | [ f ] | [ fː ] | [ s ] | [ sː ] | [ k ] | [ kː ] | [ m ] | [ mː ] | [ mˠ ] | [ mˠː ] | [ nn̩ ] | [ ŋ ] | [ ŋː ] | [ p ] | [ pː ] | [ .p ~ b ] | [ .pː ] | [ r ] | [ tʂ ] | [ t̪ ] | [ t̪ː ] | [ w ] | [ j ] |
Words and phrases
- Hello = Ran annim
- Yes = Ewer
- No = aapw
- What is your name? = Ifa itom?
- My name is ____. = Itei ____.
- Good morning = Neesor annim
- Goodbye = Kene nom
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Glottolog 4.1 - Chuukese. Retrieved February 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Chuukesian
- ↑ Wayback Machine. June 9, 2012, accessed February 4, 2020 .