Micronesians
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The Micronesians or Micronesian peoples are various closely related ethnic groups native to Micronesia, a region of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean. They are a part of the Austronesian ethnolinguistic group, which has an Urheimat in Taiwan.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.related_groups
- Polynesians, Melanesians, Euronesians, Austronesian peoples
- Ethnic group.group
- Micronesians
- Ethnic group.pop
- 450,000
- Ethnic group.langs
- Micronesian languages, Yapese, Chamorro, Palauan, English
- Ethnic group.rels
- Christianity (93.1%)
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Encyclopedic overview
24 sectionsContents
- Origins
- List of ethnic groups
- Banaban people
- Refaluwasch people
- Chamorro people
- Chuukese people
- Kiribati people
- Kosraean people
- Marshallese people
- Nauruan people
- Palauan people
- Pohnpeian people
- Sonsorolese people
- Tobian people
- Yapese people
- Languages
- Micronesian navigation
- Culture
- Music and dance
- Religion
- Mythology
- Further reading
- See also
- References
The Micronesians or Micronesian peoples are various closely related ethnic groups native to Micronesia, a region of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean. They are a part of the Austronesian ethnolinguistic group, which has an Urheimat in Taiwan.
Ethno-linguistic groups classified as Micronesian include the Carolinians (Northern Mariana Islands), Chamorros (Guam & Northern Mariana Islands), Chuukese, Mortlockese, Namonuito, Paafang, Puluwat and Pollapese (Chuuk), I-Kiribati (Kiribati), Kosraeans (Kosrae), Marshallese (Marshall Islands), Nauruans (Nauru), Palauan, Sonsorolese, and Hatohobei (Palau), Pohnpeians, Pingelapese, Ngatikese, Mwokilese (Pohnpei), and Yapese, Ulithian, Woleian, Satawalese (Yap).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Micronesians” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.