Carolinian language
Carolinian | ||
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Spoken in: | Northern Mariana Islands | |
Region: | Saipan, Anatahan, and Agrihan islands, Carolines. | |
Total speakers: | 3,000 | |
Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central Eastern Eastern Oceanic Central-Eastern Remote Oceanic Micronesian Micronesian Proper Ponapeic-Trukic Carolinian |
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Official status | ||
Official language in: | Northern Mariana Islands | |
Regulated by: | no official regulation | |
Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | none | |
ISO 639-2: | map | |
ISO 639-3: | cal | |
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. |
Carolinian is an Austronesian language spoken in the Northern Mariana Islands, where it is an official language along with English and Chamorro. Carolinian is most closely related to , Woleaian, and . Estimates place the number of speakers at about 3,000.
References
- Ethnologue report for language code:cal. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Retrieved on April 28, 2005.