Concept information
Preferred term
ponPohnpeian
Type
-
Language
Definition
- Pohnpeian or Ponapean is a Micronesian language spoken mostly on the island of Pohnpei and the Caroline Islands. Pohnpeian has about 22,000 speakers. It is the major language of Pohnpei State (Federated States of Micronesia). Ngatikese, Pingelapese and Mokilese are counted as dialects of Pohnpeian or as closely related languages. Pohnpeian has a high language with a partly separate vocabulary, used in speaking about people of high rank. Pohnpeian spelling uses -h to mark a long vowel, rather like German: dohl mountain. German missionaries designed the orthography.
Entry terms
- Pohnpeian language
ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code
- pon
ISO 639-2 Terminological code
- pon
ISO 639-3 code
- pon
Notation
- pon
In other languages
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pohnpei
French
-
Pohnpei
-
Ponapeanisch
German
-
Pohnpeanische Sprache
-
ponape
Italian
-
Portuguese
-
pohnpeiano
Spanish
URI
http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/pon
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