Mortlockese language

Mortlockese
Native to Federated States of Micronesia
Region Caroline Islands
Native speakers
 unknown (5,900 cited 1989 census)[1]
Austronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mrl
Glottolog mort1237[2]

Mortlockese (Kapsen Mwoshulók) is a member of the Chuukic group of Micronesian languages in the Federated States of Micronesia spoken primarily in the Mortlock Islands.[3] It is nearly intelligible with Satawalese and Puluwatese.[1] The language today has become mutually intelligible with Chuukese, though marked with a distinct Mortlockese accent. Linguistic patterns show that Mortlockese is converging with Chuukese.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Mortlockese at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mortlockese". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ Odango, Emmerson. 2015. Afféú Fangani ‘Join Together’: A Morphophonemic Analysis Of Possessive Suffix Paradigms And A Discourse-Based Ethnography Of The Elicitation Session In Pakin Lukunosh Mortlockese. Univeristy of Hawai'i at Mānoa Ph.D. dissertation.
  4. ↑ Marshall, Mac (2004). Namoluk Beyond the Reef: The Transformation of a Micronesian Community. Westview Press. p. 18. ISBN 9780813341620.
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