Palauan language
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- "Palauan" redirects here. For the Iraya dialect, see Palauan-Calavite
| Palauan | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Palau | |
| Total speakers: | 15,000 | |
| Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Nuclear MP Sunda-Sulawesi Palauan |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language of: | Palau | |
| Regulated by: | no official regulation | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | pau | |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | pau | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Palauan (also spelled Belauan) is the language spoken on Palau. It is a member of the Austronesian family of languages, and is considered to be one of two languages in Micronesia (the other being Chamorro) belonging to the Western Malayo-Polynesian group, all others considered to be members of either the Micronesian or Polynesian outlier subgroups of Eastern Malayo-Polynesian.
[edit] External links
- Ethnologue report for language code:pau. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Retrieved on 8 September 2005.
- http://www.pacificworlds.com/palau/onwards/lang8.cfm
- http://www.tlfq.ulaval.ca/axl/pacifique/belau.htm (French page)
- http://www.prel.org/PALM/Palauan/index.asp
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