Ulithian language
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Ulithian | ||
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Spoken in: | Federated States of Micronesia | |
Region: | Ulithi atoll | |
Total speakers: | 3,000 in 1987 | |
Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central Eastern Eastern Oceanic Central-Eastern Remote Micronesian Micronesian Proper Ponapeic-Trukic Ulithian |
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Official status | ||
Official language of: | Federated States of Micronesia | |
Regulated by: | no official regulation | |
Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | none | |
ISO 639-2: | map | |
ISO/FDIS 639-3: | uli | |
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. |
Ulithian is the name of the language spoken on Ulithi atoll and neighboring islands. Utlithian is one of the 6 official languages of the Federated States of Micronesia. There are some 3000 speakers, although only 700 of these live on Ulithi atoll.