Chuukese /tʃuːˈkiːz/, also rendered Trukese /trʌˈkiːz/,[2] is a Chuukic language of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily on the islands of Chuuk in the Caroline Islands in Micronesia. There are communities of speakers on Pohnpei, Guam, and the Hawaiian Islands as well. Estimates show that there are about 45,900 speakers in Micronesia.[1]

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Chuukese
Trukese
Chuuk
Native to	Federated States of Micronesia
Region	Chuuk
Ethnicity	Chuukese
Native speakers	51,330 (2000 census)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Micronesian Nuclear Micronesian Chuukic–Pohnpeic Chuukic Chuukese
Writing system	Latin script
Official status
Official language in	Federated States of Micronesia
Language codes
ISO 639-2	chk
ISO 639-3	chk
Glottolog	chuu1238

Phonology

Chuukese has the unusual feature of permitting word-initial geminate (double) consonants. The common ancestor of Western Micronesian languages is believed to have had this feature, but most of its modern descendants have lost it.[3]

Truk and Chuuk are a difference in orthography, and both older tr and current ch transcribe the sound [ʈʂ].

Consonants are doubled in Chuuk when they have a voiceless sound. Some consonant combinations are frequently denasalized between vowels when doubled.[4][5]

/ɯ/ can be heard as either back [ɯ] or central [ɨ].

References

External links

• Chuukese Wordlist at the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database (Archive)
• Howard, Jocelyne. "CHUUKESE TRANSLATIONS." () University of Hawaii.
• Kaipuleohone have archive materials for Chuukese including written materials, audio recordings, and additional audio recordings from Brian Diettrich's MA thesis.
• Portland State University Multicultural Topics in Communications Sciences & Disorders | Chuukese Archived 2020-05-19 at the Wayback Machine

На других языках

[de] Chuukesische Sprache

[fr] Chuuk (langue)

[it] Lingua chuukese

[ru] Трукский язык