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Preferred term

chkChuukese  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Chuukese (also called Trukese) is a Trukic language of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily on the islands of Chuuk in the Caroline Islands in Micronesia. There are some speakers on Pohnpei and Guam as well. Estimates place the number of speakers at about 45,000 including second-language speakers.

Entry terms

  • Chuukese language

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • chk

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • chk

ISO 639-3 code

  • chk

Notation

  • chk

In other languages

  • chuuk

    French

  • Chuuk
  • Trukesisch

    German

  • Chuukesische Sprache
  • Chuukese

    Italian

  • chuukese
  • Portuguese

  • trukés

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/chk

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