Yapese

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Yapese is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on the island of Yap and nearby islands in the western Pacific.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
natural language
belongsTo Malayo-Polynesian branch of Austronesian
country Federated States of Micronesia NERFINISHED
endangermentStatus vulnerable
hasAlternativeName Yap
Yapese language
hasDomain education (local primary level)
local government
religion
hasGlottocode yape1248
hasISO639-2Code yap
hasISO639-3Code yap
hasLanguagePolicyStatus recognized local language in Yap State
hasLinguisticArea Micronesian languages area
hasLoanwordsFrom English
German
Japanese
Spanish
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasNativeName Yapese
hasNeighborLanguage Ulithian
Woleaian
hasNumberOfSpeakersRange 6000–8000
hasOrthographicFeature use of macrons or doubled vowels for length (in some orthographies)
hasPhonologicalFeature complex consonant clusters
contrastive vowel length
geminate consonants
hasStressPattern predictable stress
hasTypologicalFeature noun classifiers
prepositions rather than postpositions
rich verbal morphology
hasWordOrder SVO
influencedBy English
German
Japanese
isTaughtIn schools on Yap
languageFamily Austronesian languages
primaryIsland Yap Island
region Micronesia
spokenIn Federated States of Micronesia NERFINISHED
Yap
western Pacific
subfamily Oceanic languages
usedFor daily communication on Yap
local media
traditional oral literature
writingSystem Latin script

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