Palauan

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Palauan is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in the Republic of Palau in the western Pacific Ocean.


Statements (48)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
language
belongsToSubgroup Palauan language branch
coOfficialWith English
ethnicity Palauans
hasAlternativeName Belauan
Palau language
hasGlottocode pala1344
hasGlottologName Palauan
hasLanguageRegulator Palau Language Commission
hasLinguisticInfluenceFrom English
German
Japanese
Malay
Philippine languages
Spanish
hasMorphologicalFeature affixation
rich verbal morphology
hasNativeName a tekoi er a Belau
tekoi er a Belau
hasNeighboringLanguages Carolinian
Chamorro
Yapese
hasNumberOfSpeakersEstimate 20000
approximately 20000 speakers
hasPhonologicalFeature complex consonant clusters
contrastive vowel length
hasTypology agglutinative language
hasUniquePositionWithin Austronesian language family NERFINISHED
hasWordOrder verb–subject–object
isNotMutuallyIntelligibleWith other Micronesian languages
ISO639-1Code pau
ISO639-2Code pau
ISO639-3Code pau
languageFamily Austronesian languages
officialLanguageOf Republic of Palau NERFINISHED
primaryCountry Palau NERFINISHED
region Micronesia
Western Pacific Ocean
spokenIn Palau NERFINISHED
Republic of Palau NERFINISHED
status majority language in Palau
national language of Palau
usedIn Palauan government
Palauan media
daily communication in Palau
education in Palau
writingSystem Latin script


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