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Marshallese is a language spoken by people from the Marshall Islands, a Pacific island nation in the Micronesian region. It belongs to the Micronesian language family and is important to the cultural identity and heritage of the Marshallese people.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Micronesian
- Country
- United States
- Image
- Alphabet marshallais.jpg
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- Wikimedia language code
- mh
- topic's main category
- Category:Marshallese language
- writing system
- Latin alphabet
- native label
- Kajin Ṃajōḷ
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 61000
- Commons category
- Marshallese language
- indigenous to
- Marshall Islands
- P10369
- World War II
- P11012
- Alfonso Jones
- described at URL
- lpan.eva.mpg.de/austronesian/language.php?id=344
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Encyclopedic overview
Marshallese (Marshallese: Kajin Ṃajeḷ or Kajin Majōl [kɑzʲinʲ(i)mˠɑːzʲɛlˠ]), also known as Ebon, is a Micronesian language spoken in the Marshall Islands. The language of the Marshallese people, it is spoken by nearly all of the country's population of 59,000, making it the principal language. There are also roughly 27,000 Marshallese citizens residing in the United States, nearly all of whom speak Marshallese, as well as residents in other countries such as Nauru and Kiribati.
There are two major dialects, the western Rālik and the eastern Ratak.
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