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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. ...
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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. Languages
In approximately 950 AD, it was the seat of the Yapese Empire, contemporary to the Tu'i Tonga Empire. The outer islands, now part of the Yap state, were settled from Polynesia . The island nation formerly used rai stones as currency.
Pohnpeian is a Micronesian language spoken as the indigenous language of the island of Pohnpei in the Caroline Islands.Pohnpeian has approximately 30,000 (estimated) native speakers living in Pohnpei and its outlying atolls and islands with another 10,000-15,000 (estimated) living off island in parts of the US mainland, Hawaii, and Guam.
A variety of languages were spoken in the Empire. Yapese was spoken on the main islands while Ulithian, Woleaian, Satawalese, Nguluwan and Puluwat languages were spoken on the constituent islands and atoll groups. The Woleaian script, also sometimes known as the Caroline Islands script, was the only indigenous writing system developed in the ...
The missionaries gave gifts to the locals and set up a school to teach the children about writing in Spanish, geography, and arithmetic. In February 1887, around 31 Yapese locals were baptized. However, the Capuchin missionaries struggled to learn the Yapese language and many of the locals held on to their traditional beliefs. [7]