Marquesic languages

E27929

Austronesian languages language subgroup

Marquesic languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily in the Marquesas Islands and surrounding regions of Polynesia.

Aliases (1)

Marquesic subgroup ×1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Austronesian languages → language subgroup →
areClassifiedBy	linguists →
areDefinedBy	shared grammatical innovations → shared lexical innovations → shared phonological innovations →
areEndangered	true →
areSpokenBy	Native Hawaiians → surface form: "Hawaiians" Mangarevans → Polynesians → surface form: "Marquesan people" Rapa Nui people →
areSubjectOf	comparative Polynesian studies →
geographicDistribution	Polynesia → surface form: "eastern Polynesia"
hasAlternativeName	Marquesic branch → Marquesic languages → surface form: "Marquesic subgroup"
hasAncestor	Proto-Austronesian → surface form: "Proto-Austronesian language" Proto-Polynesian language →
hasMember	Hawaiian → surface form: "Hawaiian language" Mangarevan language group → surface form: "Mangarevan language" South Marquesan language → surface form: "Marquesan languages" North Marquesan language → Rapa Nui language → South Marquesan language →
hasMorphologicalType	analytic language →
hasPhonologicalFeature	five-vowel system → small consonant inventory →
hasRegion	Easter Island → Gambier Islands → Hawaiian Islands → Marquesas Islands → surface form: "Marquesas archipelago"
hasResearchField	Austronesian linguistics → historical linguistics →
hasSubgroup	Hawaiian → surface form: "Hawaiian subgroup" Mangarevan subgroup → South Marquesan language → surface form: "Marquesan languages" Rapa Nui subgroup →
languageFamily	Austronesian languages → surface form: "Austronesian"
locatedInTheGeographicRegion	Central Pacific →
partOf	Austronesian languages → surface form: "Austronesian language family"
sharesFeatureWith	Samoic–Outlier languages subgroup → surface form: "Samoic-Outlier languages"
spokenIn	French Polynesia → Marquesas Islands → Polynesia →
subclassOf	Polynesian languages →
subfamilyOf	Polynesian languages → surface form: "Nuclear Polynesian languages"
typicalWordOrder	VOS → VSO →
writingSystem	Latin alphabet → surface form: "Latin script"

Referenced by (2)

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

Marquesic languages → hasAlternativeName → Marquesic languages →

this entity surface form: "Marquesic subgroup"

Austronesian languages → hasSubfamily → Marquesic languages →