Woleaian language

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Woleaian

Spoken in

Federated States of Micronesia (on Woleai Atoll in Yap State )
speaker 1,630 (1987 Yap census)
Linguistic
classification
Official status
Official language in Micronesia, Federated StatesMicronesia Micronesia
Language codes
ISO 639-3

woe

Woleaian is a Micronesian language spoken by approximately 1,630 people in Woleai , an atoll in the Federated States of Micronesia .

Woleaian has a lexical similarity of 88% to Satawale and Carolinian , 82% to Puluwatesian , 80% to Ulithic , 78% to Mortlocke and 75% to Chuuke . The language is spoken in two dialects (Woleaian and Lamotrek).

distribution

The language is spoken in the east of the state of Yap on the atolls Woleai , Eauripik , Elato , Falalop , Falalus , Faraulep , Ifaluk , Lamotrek , Mariang , Paliau , Seliap and Tegailap .

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The individual characters of the Woleaian script

In 1905 the American missionary Alfred Snelling came to the c km from Woleai to the atoll Eauripik and taught the inhabitants the Latin alphabet . Apparently there were misunderstandings about how they worked; When John Macmillam Brown , another missionary, visited the atoll in 1913, the residents had created a syllabary that was loosely based on the Latin alphabet. This Woleaian script was used until the middle of the 20th century.

Nowadays, eight vowels (a, e, eo, i, iu, o, oa, u) and 23 consonants (b, bb, ch, f, ff, g, k, l, m, mw, n, nn, ng, p, pp, r, s, ss, sh, t, tt, w, y) uses the Latin script.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Woleaian in Ethnologue
  2. ^ Woleaian script
  3. ↑ Woleaian