Puluwatese language

Puluwatese
Native to	Federated States of Micronesia
Region	Caroline Islands
Native speakers	(1,400 cited 1989 census)^[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Micronesian Nuclear Micronesian Trukic Tanapag Puluwatese
Dialects	Puluwatese Pulapese
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`puw`
Glottolog	`pulu1244`^[2]

Puluwatese is a Micronesian language of the Federated States of Micronesia. It is spoken on Poluwat.

References

↑ Puluwatese at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Puluwatese–Pollapese". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Languages of the Federated States of Micronesia

Official language	English

Regional languages	Chuukese Kosraen Woleaian

Indigenous languages	Kapingamarangi Mokilese Mortlockese Namonuito Ngatikese Nukuoro Pingelapese Pohnpeian Puluwatese Satawalese Ulithian Yapese

Creoles/Pidgins	Micronesian Pidgin English Ngatikese Creole

Micronesian languages

Nuclear
Micronesian

Chuukic-Pohnpeic

Pohnpeic	Mokilese Ngatikese Pingelapese Pohnpeian

Chuukic	Carolinian Chuukese Mapia Mortlockese Namonuito Pááfang Puluwatese Satawalese Sonsorolese Tanapag Tobian Ulithian Woleaian

Others

Non-Nuclear

Nauruan

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