View source for Marshallese Language (mah)


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        <tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Ebon,Marshallese


<b>Description:</b>

The Marshallese language (Marshallese: Kajin M̧ajeļ or Kajin Majõl ) is a Malayo-Polynesian language of the Marshall Islands. There are two major dialects: Rälik (western) and Ratak (eastern).
Marshallese has 22 consonants (five of which are written with digraphs), plus a supplementary velar central approximant consonant (often not written in the current orthography):
Marshallese has four vowel phonemes each with several allophones:
Marshallese vowels are not specified along the front-back and rounded-unrounded dimensions, but on the height and ATR dimensions (see the IPA classification of vowels in the table on the right). This means that a given vowel phoneme will have several different phonetic realizations.
For example, the high vowel phoneme /ɨ/ may alternately be pronounced [i], [ɯ], [u], [i͡ɯ], [i͡u], [ɯ͡i], [ɯ͡u], [u͡i], [u͡ɯ], depending on the context:
Marshallese syllable structure is such that all syllables begin and end with a consonant, with a vowel at the syllable's nucleus.
In all cases, the vowel of each syllable assimilates to the consonants at both its sides.
These multiple vowel articulations are a product of the different consonant phonemes that neighbor them on<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=736491 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
        <tr><td><h2>Location of Marshallese Language Speakers</h2>
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        <tr><td><h2>Rosetta Document Collection</h2>
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<tr><td>Detailed Description:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_mah_detail-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_mah_detail-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Genesis Translation:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_mah_gen-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_mah_gen-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Phonology:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_mah_phon-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_mah_phon-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Universal Declaration Of Human Rights:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_mah_undec-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_mah_undec-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
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<h2>Overview</h2>

<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/marshall_islands Marshall Islands]</td></tr>

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

<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/oceania Oceania] 
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>mah</td></tr>

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

&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Austronesian Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Malayo-Polynesian Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Central-Eastern Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Oceanic Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Central-Eastern Oceanic Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Remote Oceanic Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Micronesian Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Micronesian Proper Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Marshallese Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>[[Marshallese Language]]</b>

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