chuukese
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lingua micronesiana
Key facts
- Native to
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Region
- Chuuk
- Ethnicity
- Chuukese
- Native speakers
- (51,330 cited 2000 census)
- Language family
- Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Micronesian Nuclear Micronesian Chuukic–Pohnpeic Chuukic Chuukese
- Writing system
- Latin script
- Official language in
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Iso 639 2
- chk
- Iso 639 3
- chk
- Glottolog
- chuu1238
via Wikipedia infobox
Described at
Chuukese / Trukese
lingweb.eva.mpg.de →Other comments: Trukese or Chuukese has a decimal system with several sets of classifiers which used with different nouns similar to Pááféng and M ortlockese . The data is from Nómwoneas [nɔmʷˠonɛas] dialect. Chuukese is spoken by about 60,000 speakers in Chuuk Lagoon, Caroline Islands, Chuuk state and Pohnpei island, the Federated States of Micronesia. Various dialects have either /ts/ or /tʃ/. Singleton nasals are denasalized inter-vocalically.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Chuukic
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- writing system
- Latin script
- indigenous to
- Chuuk
- topic's main category
- Category:Chuukese language
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 51330
- P10369
- Linda Lovelace
- native label
- fóósun Chuuk
- described at URL
- lingweb.eva.mpg.de/channumerals/Chuukese.htm
Sources (7)
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Article · Italiano
La lingua chuukese, chiamata anche chuuk, è una lingua micronesiana parlata negli Stati Federati di Micronesia.
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