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Marshallese (Marshallese: Kajin M̧ajeļ or Kajin Majōl [kɑzʲinʲ(i)mˠɑːzʲɛlˠ]), also known as Ebon, is a Micronesian language spoken in the Marshall Islands. The language of the Marshallese people , it is spoken by nearly all of the country's population of 59,000, making it the principal language. [ 3 ]
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[citation needed] Marshallese society was organized into three social classes; the iroji was the chief or landowner that headed several clans, the alap managed the clan and the rijerbal (worker) were commoners that worked the land. The three social classes treated each other well and with mutual respect.
Marshallese may refer to: Marshall Islands, a Micronesian island nation; Marshallese language, a Malayo-Polynesian language of the Marshall Islands; Marshallese people, the people of the Marshall Islands
In the Marshallese language, each consonant has some type of secondary articulation (palatalization, velarization, or labiovelarization). The palatalized consonants are regarded as "light", and the velarized and rounded consonants are regarded as "heavy", with the rounded consonants being both velarized and labialized.