Austronesian language spoken on Pohnpei island in Micronesia
Pohnpeian
Mahsen en Pohnpei [honorific] Lokaiahn Pohnpei [common]
Native to
Micronesia
Region
Pohnpei
Native speakers
29,000 (2001)[1]
Language family
Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Oceanic
Micronesian
Nuclear Micronesian
Chuukic–Pohnpeic
Pohnpeic
Pohnpeian
Dialects
Kitti
Writing system
Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-2
pon
ISO 639-3
pon
Glottolog
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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. It is the second-most widely spoken native language of the Federated States of Micronesia[2] the first being Chuukese.
Pohnpeian features a "high language", referred to as Meing[3] or Mahsen en Meing including specialized vocabulary used when speaking to, or about people of high rank.[2]
^Pohnpeian at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ abDalby 2004.
^Pohnpeian-English, M.
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