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Yapese is an Austronesian language in the Oceanic branch spoken on the island of Yap, in the Federated States of Micronesia. It has been difficult to classify the language further, but Yapese may prove to be one of the Admiralty Islands languages . [ 2 ]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 December 2024. Island group in the Federated States of Micronesia For other uses, see Yap (disambiguation). Island group in Federated States of Micronesia Yap Wa'ab (Yapese) Island group Flag Map of the Yap Islands Map of Yap Proper (Marbaaq) Coordinates: 9°30′N 138°07′E / 9.500°N 138. ...
Yapese man, c. 1873. Before coming into contact with Europeans, the Yapese people were familiar with surrounding island groups. Yapese sailors traveled to Palau to quarry stones. Carolinian people visited Yap during times of crises. Spanish and German traders colonized Yap in 1885 and started converting the people to Christianity.
Only found in this word, which is pronounced as [afʼa] only by some speakers, pronounced [apʼa] by the majority. [1] Chontal: Highland Oaxaca Chontal: ɫof'aneh [ɬofʼaneʔ] 'corn cob' Northwest Caucasian: Kabardian: фӏыцӏэ / ḟıše / ڡہڗە [fʼət͡sʼa] ⓘ 'black' Corresponds to [ʃʷʼ] in Adyghe. [2] Oceanic: Yapese [3 ...
The Palauans, Chamorros, Yapese, Chuukese, Pohnpeians, Kosraeans, Nauruans and Banabans belong to the high-islander group. The inhabitants of the low islands are the Marshallese and the Kiribati, whose culture is distinct from the high-islanders. [18] Low-islanders had better navigation and canoe technology, as a means of survival.
Admiralties and Yapese The Admiralty Islands languages are a group of some thirty Oceanic languages spoken on the Admiralty Islands . They may include Yapese , which has proven difficult to classify.
Words of Nahuatl origin have entered many European languages. Mainly they have done so via Spanish. Most words of Nahuatl origin end in a form of the Nahuatl "absolutive suffix" (-tl, -tli, or -li, or the Spanish adaptation -te), which marked unpossessed nouns. Achiote (definition) from āchiotl [aːˈt͡ʃiot͡ɬ] Atlatl (definition)
After the war, he did fieldwork on two more genetically and typologically disparate Austronesian languages, Chuukese (rendered as "Trukese" at that time) and Yapese, as a member of the Tri-Institutional Coordinated Investigation of Micronesian Anthropology sponsored by Yale University, the University of Hawaiʻi, and the Bernice P. Bishop Museum.