Mortlockese language
| Mortlockese | |
|---|---|
| Kapsen Mwoshulók | |
| Native to | Federated States of Micronesia |
| Region | Caroline Islands |
Native speakers | (5,900 cited 1989 census)[1] |
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Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
mrl |
| Glottolog |
mort1237[2] |
Mortlockese (Kapsen Mwoshulók) is a language belong of the Chuukic group of Micronesian languages in the Federated States of Micronesia spoken primarily in the Mortlock Islands (Nomoi (Lower Mortlock) Islands and Upper Mortlock Islands).[3] It is nearly intelligible with Satawalese and Puluwatese.[1] The language today has become mutually intelligible with Chuukese, though marked with a distinct Mortlockese accent. Linguistic patterns show that Mortlockese is converging with Chuukese.[4]
References
- 1 2 Mortlockese at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Mortlockese". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Odango, Emmerson. 2015. Afféú Fangani ‘Join Together’: A Morphophonemic Analysis Of Possessive Suffix Paradigms And A Discourse-Based Ethnography Of The Elicitation Session In Pakin Lukunosh Mortlockese. University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Ph.D. dissertation.
- ↑ Marshall, Mac (2004). Namoluk Beyond the Reef: The Transformation of a Micronesian Community. Westview Press. p. 18. ISBN 9780813341620.
External links
- A collection of Mortlockese recordings are available through Kaipuleohone
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