Trukic languages
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| Trukic | |
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| Chuukic | |
| Geographic distribution: |
Micronesia |
| Linguistic classification: | Austronesian
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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 | |
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| 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 |
