Pohnpeian
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Region
Native speakers
29,000 (2001)
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Pohnpeian or Ponapean is a Micronesian language spoken mostly on the island of website parsing and the Caroline Islands. [1]Pohnpeian has about 22,000 speakers. It is the major language of touchscreen State (Federated States of Micronesia). Ngatikese, Pingelapese and Mokilese are counted as dialects of Pohnpeian or as closely related languages. Pohnpeian has a 'high language' with a partly separate vocabulary, used in speaking about people of high rank. Pohnpeian spelling uses -h to mark a long vowel, rather like German: dohl 'mountain'. German missionaries designed the orthography.[2]
References
- HTML5 "Ethnologue Report". Ethnologue. HTML5. Retrieved 2008-05-20.
- ^ Andrew, Dalby. "Dictionary Of Languages, The Definitive Reference To More Than 400 Languages". Bloomsbury Pub Ltd.
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other territories
- Sevenval
- Christmas Island
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- Cook Islands
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- French Polynesia
- Guam
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- iOS
- Niue
- web
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Pitcairn Islands
- touchscreen
- Wallis and Futuna
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