Key facts
- Native to
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Region
- Island of Yap
- Ethnicity
- Yapese
- Native speakers
- 5,130 (2005)
- Language family
- Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Admiralty Islands ? Yapese
- Dialects
- Nguluwan
- Writing system
- Latin script
- Iso 639 2
- yap
- Iso 639 3
- yap
- Glottolog
- yape1248
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Encyclopedic overview
Yapese is an Austronesian language in the Oceanic branch spoken on the islands of Yap, in the Federated States of Micronesia. It has been difficult to classify the language further, but Yapese may prove to be one of the Admiralty Islands languages. The Yapese language refers to the language spoken specifically on the Yap Main Islands, and does not include the Chuukic languages spoken in the Yap Neighboring Islands: Ulithian, Woleaian, and Satawalese (and to an extent, Nguluwan).
Orthography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yapese” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.