Yapese language

Yapese
Yapese
Thin nu Waqaab
Native to	Federated States of Micronesia
Region	Island of Yap
Ethnicity	Yapese
Native speakers	5,130 (2005)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Admiralty Islands? Yapese; ; ; ;
Dialects	Nguluwan;
Writing system	Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-2	yap
ISO 639-3	yap
Glottolog	yape1248
	Yapese
	Coordinates: 9°34′N 138°07′E / 9.56°N 138.12°E

Yapese is an Austronesian language in the Oceanic branch spoken on the island of Yap, in the Federated States of Micronesia. It has been difficult to classify the language further, but Yapese may prove to be one of the Admiralty Islands languages.^[2] The Yapese language refers to the language spoken specifically on the Yap Main Islands, and does not include the Chuukic languages spoken in the Yap Neighboring Islands: Ulithian, Woleaian, and Satawalese (and to an extent, Nguluwan).

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Yapese
Thin nu Waqaab
Native to	Federated States of Micronesia
Region	Island of Yap
Ethnicity	Yapese
Native speakers	5,130 (2005)^[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Admiralty Islands? Yapese
Dialects	Nguluwan
Writing system	Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-2	`yap`
ISO 639-3	`yap`
Glottolog	`yape1248`
Yapese
Coordinates: 9°34′N 138°07′E / 9.56°N 138.12°E / 9.56; 138.12