Woleaian Language (woe) - Revision history

Rosbot: New page:

Also Known As: Woleaian Description: Woleaian is the main lan...
2009-08-13T21:04:57Z

New page: <table valign=top> <tr> <td valign=top align=left width="50%"> <table valign=top> <tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Woleaian <b>Description:</b> Woleaian is the main lan...

New page

<table valign=top>
<tr>
<td valign=top align=left width="50%">
<table valign=top>
<tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Woleaian

<b>Description:</b>

Woleaian is the main language of the island of Woleai and surrounding smaller islands in the state of Yap of the Federated States of Micronesia. Woleaian is a Trukic language, and within that family its closest relative is Satawalese, with which it is largely mutually intelligible. Woleaian is divided into two dialects: Woleaian proper and Lamotrek. There are approximately 1700 speakers of Woleaian.
Woleai has a writing system of its own, a syllabary influenced in part by Latin letters.
Woleaian has geminate (long) consonants and vowels.
In the orthography of Sohn (1975), along with a few approximations in the IPA, the inventory is,
Note that both sh and r become ch when long, and that l becomes nn.
Vowels occur long and short, except for eo and oa, which are only found long.
Sohn, H.M. 1975. Woleaian Reference Grammar. University of Hawaii Press.<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=5609564 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
<tr><td><h2>Location of Woleaian Language Speakers</h2>
http://llmap.org/languages/woe/static_map.png?width=400&height=300&kilroywashere=.png
</td></tr>
<tr><td></td></tr>
</table>
</td>
<td valign=top align=right>
<table valign=top>
<tr><td><table>

<h2>Overview</h2>

<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/federated_states_of_micronesia Federated States of Micronesia]</td></tr>

<tr><td><b>Spoken In: </b></td><td>

<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/oceania Oceania]
</td></tr>

<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>woe</td></tr>

</table>
</td></tr>
<tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
[[All Languages]]

  [[Austronesian Group]]

    [[Malayo-Polynesian Group]]

      [[Central-Eastern Group]]

        [[Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Group]]

          [[Oceanic Group]]

            [[Central-Eastern Oceanic Group]]

              [[Remote Oceanic Group]]

                [[Micronesian Group]]

                  [[Micronesian Proper Group]]

                    [[Ponapeic-Trukic Group]]

                      [[Trukic Group]]

                        <b>[[Woleaian Language]]</b>

</td></tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

NOTOC