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Feb 25, 2023 · Gilbertese or Kiribati is an Austronesian language belonging to the Micronesian branch of the Oceanic languages. The language is mainly spoken in Kiribati and has over 116,280 speakers. The first-ever vocabulary list of Gilbertese was published by the French Revue coloniale in 1847. The language began to take on the written form known today when Hiram Bingham II took up missionary work on ...
Though covering a vast area, Oceanic languages are spoken by only two million people. The largest individual Oceanic languages are Eastern Fijian with over 600,000 speakers, and Samoan with an estimated 400,000 speakers. The Gilbertese (Kiribati), Tongan, Tahitian, Māori and Tolai ( Gazelle Peninsula) languages each have over 100,000 speakers.
t. e. A classifier ( abbreviated clf [1] or cl) is a word or affix that accompanies nouns and can be considered to "classify" a noun depending on some characteristics (e.g. humanness, animacy, sex, shape, social status) of its referent. [2] [3] Classifiers in this sense are specifically called noun classifiers because some languages in Papua as ...
Gilbert Islands. The Gilbert Islands ( Gilbertese: Tungaru; [1] in the past Kingsmill or King's-Mill Islands) are a group of sixteen islands in the Pacific Ocean. It is the main group of islands in Kiribati . They were named after British Captain Thomas Gilbert.
Gilbertese or taetae ni Kiribati, also Kiribati (sometimes Kiribatese ), is an Austronesian language spoken mainly in Kiribati. It belongs to the Micronesian branch of the Oceanic languages . The word Kiribati, the current name of the islands, is the local adaptation of the European name "Gilberts" to Gilbertese phonology.
Gjuha Gilbertese ka dy dialekte kryesor: Dialektin Verior dhe Dialektin Jugor. Dallimet kryesore janë në shqiptimin e disa fjalëve. Ishujt Butaritari dhe Makin kanë dialektin e tyre. Lidhje të jashtme. Languages of the World with Language Code (ISO) Transclusion error: {} is
