Chuukese
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Proper noun edit
Chuukese
- A Trukic language of the Austronesian language family, spoken primarily on the islands of Chuuk in the Caroline Islands in Micronesia.
- Chuukese has the unusual feature of permitting word-initial geminate (double) consonants.
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language
Noun edit
Chuukese (plural Chuukese)
- A member of an ethnic group in Oceania who speak the Chuukese language and constitute 48% of the population of the Federated States of Micronesia.
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member of an ethnic group
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Further reading edit
- ISO 639-3 code chk (SIL)
- Ethnologue entry for Chuukese, chk