Marquesan Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Austronesian
Marquesan is an Eastern Malayo-Polynesian member of the Austronesian language family spoken in the Marquesas Islands by approximately 3400 people. Note that Northern and Southern Marquesan are closely related but normally categorized as separate languages.
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See Also:
- Lexique of Marquesian - Marquesian language lexicon.
- Nominal Phrase in Marquesan - Description of nominal particles in Marquesan with discussion on problems of low phonetic redundancy and orthography.[PDF]
- Isles of Hiva: Language - Basic facts about Marquesan from the Polynesian Voyaging Society with marquesan comparison to Hawaiian vocabulary.
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