South Marquesan language
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| South Marquesan ‘E‘o ‘Enana |
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| Spoken in: | Southern Marquesas Islands, Tahiti | |
| Total speakers: | ~5,000 | |
| Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Eastern Polynesian Oceanic Central-Eastern Oceanic Remote Oceanic Central Pacific East Fijian-Polynesian Polynesian Nuclear Polynesian Eastern Central Eastern Marquesic South Marquesan |
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| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | map | |
| ISO 639-3: | mqm | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
South Marquesan is the Marquesic, East Central Polynesian language spoken in the southern Marquesas Islands, as well as on Ua Huka in the northern Marquesas.
The three most noticeable differences between it and North Marquesan are its preference for /n/, /f/ and /ʔ/ (glottal stop) in some cases where North Marquesan uses /k/, /h/ and /k/.
This difference can be seen in such pairs as
- North Marquesan <==> South Marquesan
- haka <==> fana (bay)
- ha`e <==> fa`e (house)
- koe <==> `oe (you (singular))
Even the name of the island Ua Huka is, in South Marquesan, "Ua Huna".
The dialects fall roughly into four groups:
- Pepane: Eastern Hiva `Oa
- Fatu Hiva
- Nuku: Western Hiva `Oa and Tahuata
- Ua Huka, spoken on that island, and closely related to those of eastern Hiva Oa
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