Ngatikese language

Not to be confused with Ngatikese Men's Creole.

Ngatikese
Sapwuahfik
Native to	Micronesia, USA
Region	Sapwuahfik
Native speakers	ca. 700 (2014)^[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Micronesian Nuclear Micronesian Chuukic–Pohnpeic Pohnpeic Ngatikese
Writing system	Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	(covered by Pohnpeian)
Glottolog	`sapw1237`^[2]

Ngatikese, or Sapwuahfik, is a Micronesian language originating on Sapwuahfik atoll, Federated States of Micronesia.^[3] Of the 700 Ngatikese speakers, only about 450 live on Sapwuahfik.^[1] It was previously considered a dialect of Pohnpeian, but is not particularly intelligible with that language. It is currently considered vulnerable.^[1]

References

1 2 3 "Ngatikese". Retrieved 2015-02-11.
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Sapwuahfik". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
↑ Lynch, John; Malcolm Ross; Terry Crowley (2002). The Oceanic languages. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon. ISBN 978-0-7007-1128-4. OCLC 48929366. Cite uses deprecated parameter |coauthors= (help)

Languages of the Federated States of Micronesia

Official language	English

Regional languages	Chuukese Kosraen Woleaian

Indigenous languages	Kapingamarangi Mokilese Mortlockese Namonuito Ngatikese Nukuoro Pingelapese Pohnpeian Puluwatese Satawalese Ulithian Yapese

Creoles/Pidgins	Micronesian Pidgin English Ngatikese Creole

Micronesian languages

Nuclear
Micronesian

Chuukic-Pohnpeic

Pohnpeic	Mokilese Ngatikese Pingelapese Pohnpeian

Chuukic	Carolinian Chuukese Mapia Mortlockese Namonuito Pááfang Puluwatese Satawalese Sonsorol Tanapag Tobian Ulithian Woleaian

Others

Non-Nuclear

Nauruan

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