Mortlockese language

E146933

Mortlockese is an Austronesian language of the Chuukic branch spoken primarily in the Mortlock Islands of Chuuk State in the Federated States of Micronesia.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Mortlockese language canonical 8
Mortlockese 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Chuukic language
Oceanic language
closelyRelatedTo Chuukese language
Pulusuk language
Puluwatese language
Satawalese language
country Federated States of Micronesia
endangeredStatus vulnerable
hasAlternativeName Mortlock
Mortlockese language
surface form: Mortlockese
hasDialect Ettal dialect
Satawan dialect
surface form: Lukunor dialect

Namoluk dialect
Satawan dialect
hasDomain daily communication in Mortlock Islands
traditional oral literature
hasInfluenceFrom Chuukese language
English language
German language
Japanese
surface form: Japanese language

Pohnpeian language
hasLinguisticTypology head-marking
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
prenasalized stops
hasResourceType Bible portions
dictionary
grammar description
hasWordOrder SVO
iso639-3Code mrl
languageFamily Austronesian languages
macrolanguageOf local dialect cluster in Mortlock Islands
primaryLocation Mortlock Islands of Chuuk Lagoon
region Micronesia
spokenIn Chuuk State
Federated States of Micronesia
Mortlock Islands
subfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages
subgroup Chuukic–Pohnpeic languages
surface form: Chuukic languages

Micronesian languages
Oceanic languages
usedBy Mortlockese people
usedInEducationLevel primary education (locally)
usedInReligion Christian church services (locally)
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (10)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Chuukic–Pohnpeic languages hasMember Mortlockese language
Carolinean languages hasPart Mortlockese language
Micronesian languages hasLanguage Mortlockese language
Mortlockese language hasAlternativeName Mortlockese language
this entity surface form: Mortlockese
Pulapese language closelyRelatedTo Mortlockese language
Mortlockese people language Mortlockese language
Mortlockese people educationLanguage Mortlockese language
Chuukese language closelyRelatedTo Mortlockese language
Mortlock Islands traditionalLanguage Mortlockese language
this entity surface form: Mortlockese