- South Marquesan language
language
name=South Marquesan
nativename=‘E‘o ‘Enana
region=SouthernMarquesas 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=mqmSouth Marquesan is the Marquesic, East Central Polynesian language spoken in the southern
Marquesas Islands , as well as onUa 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 andTahuata :Ua Huka , spoken on that island, and closely related to those of eastern Hiva Oa
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