Trukic languages
Not to be confused with Turkic languages.
| Trukic | |
|---|---|
| Chuukic | |
| Geographic distribution: | Micronesia |
| Linguistic classification: |
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| Glottolog: | truk1243[1] |
Trukic, also rendered Chuukic,[2] is a subgroup of the Chuukic–Pohnpeic family of the Austronesian language family.[3] The languages are primarily spoken in Chuuk State and Yap State of the Federated States of Micronesia.
Languages
- Sonsorol and Tobian (close enough to each other to often be considered dialects)
- Chuukese
- Woleaian and Ulithian
- Puluwatese, Namonuito, and Tanapag
- Carolinian
- Satawalese and Mortlockese (closely related)
- Pááfang
- Mapia (extinct)
Phonology
| Proto Oceanic | *mp | *mp,ŋp | *p | *m | *m,ŋm | *k | *ŋk | *ŋ | *y | *w | *t | *s,nj | *ns,j | *j | *nt,nd | *d,R | *l | *n | *ɲ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proto Micronesian | *p | *pʷ | *f | *m | *mʷ | *k | *x | *ŋ | *y | *w | *t | *T | *s | *S | *Z | *c | *r | *l | *n | *ɲ |
| Proto-Trukic | *p | *pʷ | *f | *m | *mʷ | *k | *∅ | *ŋ | *y | *w | *t | *T | *t | *t | ∅ | * ̻t | *r | *l | *n | *ɲ |
References
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Trukic". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ "tr" is a German convention for the retroflex affricate now written "ch"
- ↑ Lynch, John; Malcolm Ross; Terry Crowley (2002). The Oceanic languages. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon. ISBN 978-0-7007-1128-4. OCLC 48929366. Cite uses deprecated parameter
|coauthors=(help) - ↑ Bender, Byron W. (2003). "Proto-Micronesian Reconstructions: 1". Oceanic Linguistics 42: 4, 5. doi:10.2307/3623449.
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