Children's Books Marshallese Alphabet (HC) Regular Price $9.95 Buy Info This book is part of the Island Alphabet Books series, which features languages and children’s artwork from the U.S.-affiliated Pacific. Each hardcover book contains the complete alphabet for the language, four or five examples for each letter,...

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Introduction

Marshallese is spoken in the Marshall Islands, which lie north of the equator and just to the west of the International Date Line. It is one of the Micronesian languages, which form a branch of the Malayo-Polynesian family. The alphabet includes an ampersand (&), which represents a vowel sound somewhere between e and i.

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There are about 20,000 speakers.

Family: Malayo-Polynesian (Austronesian)
Branch: Micronesian

Writing Sample

Translation

The Marshalls District is the eastemmost of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Majuro is the capital, and many people from the outer islands live there. Ebeye on Kwajalein Atoll is the subcapital of the Marshalls. The people on Ebeye work at Kwajalein, the missile testing range of the American military. Bikini and Eniwetok are the atolls where America tested bombs.