Chuukese
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Trukic language of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily on the islands of Chuuk in the Caroline Islands in Micronesia
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
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- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 51330
- P10369
- Linda Lovelace
- native label
- fóósun Chuuk
- described at URL
- lingweb.eva.mpg.de/channumerals/Chuukese.htm
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Chuukese (/tʃuːˈkiːz/), also rendered Trukese (/trʌˈkiːz/), is a Chuukic language of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily on the islands of Chuuk in the Caroline Islands in Micronesia. There are communities of speakers on Pohnpei and Guam. Estimates show that there are about 45,900 speakers in Micronesia.
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