two groups, North Marquesan and South Marquesan, roughly along geographic lines. The most striking feature of the Marquesan languages is their almost universal...

Archipel des Marquises or Marquises; Marquesan: Te Henua ʻEnana (North Marquesan) and Te Fenua ʻEnata (South Marquesan), both meaning "the land of men")...

appearing variously as Havaiki, Havaiʻi, or ʻAvaiki in other Polynesian languages. Hawaiki or the misspelling "Hawaiiki" appear to have become the most...

of the Polynesian outliers, was colonized by Marquesan descendants centered in Tahiti. Native Marquesan culture was devastated in the period following...

the Rapa language, as ’aka’a’ine (pronounced [ʔakaʔaˈʔine]) in Mangareva, and as hakavahīne (pronounced [hakavaˈhiːne]) in the Tuamotuan language, though...

Qaumi Movement – Haqiqi (MQM-H) Mardin Airport, Turkey (IATA: MQM) South Marquesan language (ISO 639-3: mqm) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...

Bikol languages. It is bordered by Coastal Bikol to the north, Buhinon to the east, and West Miraya language immediately to the south. The language's closest...

selection of languages: Tongan; Niuean; Samoan; Sikaiana; Takuu; North Marquesan; South Marquesan; Mangarevan; Hawaiian; Rapanui language; Tahitian; Māori...

and Marquesan, is that the consonant *r became a glottal stop in Marquesan: for example, 'candlenut' is rama in Mangarevan, but ʻama[what language is this...

century as companions for European settlers. There are two words in the Marquesan language for dog: peto, used in the Northern Marquesas, and nuhe, used in the...

Press. p. 81. ISBN 9780520047822. Young women among the Marquesans (Robert Suggs, Marquesan Sexual Behavior [New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1966]...

Njav is a Malakula language of Vanuatu. There are about 10 speakers. François et al. 2015. François, Alexandre; Franjieh, Michael; Lacrampe, Sébastien;...

indoˈnesija]) is the official and national language of Indonesia. It is a standardized variety of Malay, an Austronesian language that has been used as a lingua franca...

tə-GAH-log; [tɐˈɡaːloɡ]; Baybayin: ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the ethnic Tagalog people, who make up a quarter of the...

Latin auster "south" and Ancient Greek νῆσος (nêsos "island"). Most Austronesian languages are spoken by island dwellers. Only a few languages, such as Malay...

major Eastern Polynesian languages include Hawaiian, Marquesan (languages in the Marquesic subgroup), and the Rapa Nui language of Easter Island. While...

Dutch Boetonees, names it shares with Wolio, and as South Buton or Southern Butung. The language situation on the island of Buton is very complicated...

Marquesas have distinct forms of Marquesan geography, Marquesan language, and Marquesan culture. While there is no native Marquesan name to differentiate between...

The Bisayan languages or Visayan languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages spoken in the Philippines. They are most closely related to Tagalog...

region of West Java, it is also used as a literary language. It was the court language in Palembang, South Sumatra, until the palace was sacked by the Dutch...

Cebuano (/sɛbˈwɑːnoʊ/ se-BWAH-noh) is an Austronesian language spoken in the southern Philippines. It is natively, though informally, called by its generic...

is one of the five main Polynesian tattoo styles (the other four are Marquesan, Samoan, Tahitian and Hawaiian). Tohunga-tā-moko (tattooists) were considered...

view them as distinct languages. In this way, North and South Marquesan are often grouped together as a single Marquesan language, and Rapa is often viewed...

Austronesian language and dialect continuum spoken in Madagascar. The standard variety, called Official Malagasy, is an official language of Madagascar...

Kankanaey (also spelled Kankana-ey) is a South-Central Cordilleran language under the Austronesian family spoken on the island of Luzon in the Philippines...

schemes for Southeast Asian languages (see the articles for the respective language families). The five established major language families are: Austroasiatic...

Austronesian language family. It is closely related to other Polynesian languages, such as Samoan, Marquesan, Tahitian, Māori, Rapa Nui (the language of Easter...

Malayo-Polynesian languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages, with approximately 385.5 million speakers. The Malayo-Polynesian languages are spoken...

Malay: Bahasa Melayu, Jawi: بهاس ملايو) is an Austronesian language that is an official language of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, and that...

Australia. Settlement of Hawaii by Marquesans around 300 CE began the divergence of Eastern Polynesian into the Hawaiian language. During Roman rule in North...