Kosraean language
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| Kosraean | ||
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| Spoken in: | Federated States of Micronesia | |
| Region: | Kosrae | |
| Total speakers: | 8,000 | |
| Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Eastern Oceanic Central-Eastern Remote Oceanic Micronesian Micronesian Proper Kosraean |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in: | Federated States of Micronesia | |
| Regulated by: | no official regulation | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | kos | |
| ISO 639-3: | kos | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Kosraean, also sometimes called Kusaiean, is the language spoken on the islands of Kosrae (Kusaie), Caroline Islands, and Nauru. In 2001 there were approximately 8,000 speakers.
[edit] Further reading
- Yi, K.-d. (1976). Kusaiean-English dictionary. PALI language texts. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii. ISBN 0824804139
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