Marshallese language

Marshallese
Marshallese
Ebon[2]
(new orthography) Kajin M̧ajeļ; (old orthography) Kajin Majōl
Native to	Marshall Islands
Ethnicity	Marshallese
Native speakers	(55,000 cited 1979)[3]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Micronesian Micronesian Proper Nuclear Micronesian Marshallese; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin (Marshallese alphabet)
Official status
Official language in	Marshall Islands
Language codes
ISO 639-1	mh
ISO 639-2	mah
ISO 639-3	mah
Glottolog	mars1254
	A map of Micronesian languages. Marshallese is spoken in the orange area.

Marshallese is an official language of the Marshall Islands, with English as their second. It is used as the language to teach in most primary schools.[1]

Marshallese is most closely related to Kiribati and Chuukese, which are other Micronesian languages.[4]

References

"Marshallese alphabet, prounciation and language". omniglot.com. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
"Marshallese". SIL International. Archived from the original on 2015-04-11. Retrieved December 5, 2012.
Marshallese at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
"Marshallese.org - Language and Tools". marshallese.org. Retrieved 2022-12-31.

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