Woleaian is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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Woleaian is the main language of the island of Woleai and surrounding smaller islands in the state of Yap of the Federated States of Micronesia. Woleaian is a Chuukic language. Within that family, its closest relative is Satawalese, with which it is largely mutually intelligible. Woleaian is spoken by approximately 1700 people.[2] Woleai has a writing system of its own, a syllabary based on the Latin alphabet.
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Woleaian is the main language of the island of Woleai and surrounding smaller islands in the state of Yap of the Federated States of Micronesia. Woleaian...
Woleai Atoll and nearby islands of Micronesia and used to write the Woleaianlanguage until the mid-20th century. At the time the script was first noticed...
subgroup of Micronesian languages, together with its close relatives like Woleaian, Carolinian. Chuukese has the unusual feature of permitting word-initial...
the Chuukic languages spoken in the Yap Neighboring Islands: Ulithian, Woleaian, and Satawalese (and to an extent, Nguluwan). Written Yapese uses the Latin...
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