Carolinian language
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| Carolinian | ||
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| Spoken in: | Northern Mariana Islands | |
| Region: | Saipan, Anatahan, and Agrihan islands, Carolines. | |
| Total speakers: | 3,000 | |
| Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central Eastern Eastern Oceanic Central-Eastern Remote Oceanic Micronesian Micronesian Proper Ponapeic-Trukic Carolinian |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in: | Northern Mariana Islands | |
| Regulated by: | no official regulation | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | map | |
| ISO 639-3: | cal | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Carolinian is an Austronesian language spoken in the Northern Mariana Islands, where it is an official language along with English and Chamorro. Carolinian is most closely related to Satawalese, Woleaian, and Puluwatese. Estimates place the number of speakers at about 3,000.
[edit] References
- Ethnologue report for language code:cal. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Retrieved on April 28, 2005.
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