South Marquesan
Marquesan; Marquesas-Inseln Sprache; Marquesas; Marquesan, South
Austronesian; Malayo-Polynesian; Oceanic; Polynesian
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French, Tahitian
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Today the Marquesan community is bilingual with Marquesan and French being used in overlapping domains. Contemporary Marquesan is characterized by French-Marquesan code-switching and by French, Tahitian, and English loans.
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Marquesas Island, French Polynesia
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Situated 1400 km northeast of Tahiti which is the political, economic, educational and administrative center of French Polynesia.
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Situated 1400 km northeast of Tahiti which is the political, economic, educational and administrative center of French Polynesia.
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Marquesan and French are used, partly in different and partly in the same domains of everyday life. Moreover, the speech of Marquesan adults is characterised by French-Marquesan code-switching and code-mixing (Riley 2001; Cablitz 2002).
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Numbers based on (Wurm and Hattori 1981)
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- Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)http://www.ethnologue.com/
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