Kusaie

E392052

Kusaie is an alternate name for the Kosraean language spoken on the Micronesian island of Kosrae.

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Label Occurrences
Kusaie canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
language
alternateNameOf Kosraean language
closelyRelatedTo Marshallese language
Nauruan
surface form: Nauruan language

Pohnpeian language
country Federated States of Micronesia
endangermentStatus vulnerable
hasAlternateName Kosrae State
surface form: Kosrae

Kosraean
hasAlternateSpelling Kusaian
Kusaiean
hasDialects Lelu dialect
Malem dialect
Tafunsak dialect
Utwe dialect
hasEthnologueEntry Kosraean
hasGlottocode kosr1238
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
simple consonant inventory
ISO639-3Code kos
isOfficialLanguageOf Kosrae State
surface form: Kosrae State (de facto)
languageFamily Austronesian languages
linguisticClassification Nuclear Micronesian
primaryWordOrder SVO
region Micronesia
spokenIn Federated States of Micronesia
Kosrae State
surface form: Kosrae
subfamily Oceanic languages
subgroup Micronesian languages
usedByEthnicGroup Kosraean people
usedIn education in Kosrae
local media in Kosrae
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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