South Marquesan language

South Marquesan language

language
name=South Marquesan
nativename=‘E‘o ‘Enana
region=Southern Marquesas Islands, Tahiti
speakers=~5,000
familycolor=Austronesian
fam2=Malayo-Polynesian
fam3=Central Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
fam4=Eastern Polynesian
fam5=Oceanic
fam6=Central-Eastern Oceanic
fam7=Remote Oceanic
fam8=Central Pacific
fam9=East Fijian-Polynesian
fam10=Polynesian
fam11=Nuclear Polynesian
fam12=Eastern
fam13=Central Eastern
fam14=Marquesic
iso2=map|iso3=mqm

South Marquesan is the Marquesic, East Central Polynesian language spoken in the southern Marquesas Islands, as well as on Ua Huka in the northern Marquesas.

The three most noticeable differences between it and North Marquesan are its preference for /n/, /f/ and /IPA|ʔ/ (glottal stop) in some cases where North Marquesan uses /k/, /h/ and /k/.

This difference can be seen in such pairs as :North Marquesan <=> South Marquesan::haka <=> fana (bay)::ha`e <=> fa`e (house)::koe <=> `oe (you (singular))

Even the name of the island Ua Huka is, in South Marquesan, "Ua Huna".

The dialects fall roughly into four groups::Pepane: Eastern Hiva `Oa:Fatu Hiva:Nuku: Western Hiva `Oa and Tahuata:Ua Huka, spoken on that island, and closely related to those of eastern Hiva Oa


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