Social:Namonuito language

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Short description: Micronesian language
Namonuito
Native toCaroline Islands
RegionNamonuito Atoll
Native speakers
(940 cited 1989 census)[1]
Austronesian
  • Malayo-Polynesian
    • Oceanic
      • Micronesian
        • Nuclear Micronesian
          • Chuukic
            • Tanapag
              • Namonuito
Language codes
ISO 639-3nmt
Glottolognamo1247[2]
Namonuito is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.

Namonuito is a Micronesian language of the Federated States of Micronesia. It is spoken on Namonuito Atoll.

Phonology

Consonants

IPA chart Namonuito consonants
Labial Dental-Alveolar Palatal Velar
Nasal m n ŋ
Plosive p b t d c ɟ k ɡ
Fricative f v s x ɣ
Continuant w r j

References

  1. Namonuito at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Namonuito". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/namo1247. 

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