Chuukese (Chuuk)

Chuukese a member of the Micronesian branch of the Austronesian languages. The language is also known as Chuuk, Lagoon Chuukese, Ruk, Truk or Trukese, and is spoken by about 48,000 people on the islands of Chuuk in the Caroline Islands in Micronesia.

Missionaries devised a way to write Chuukese using the Latin alphabet during the 19th century. In the 1970s linguists modified the missionaries' system with the addition of the accented letters.

Chuukese alphabet

A a Á á E e É é I i O o Ó ó U u
Ú ú F f S s K k M m Mw mw N n Ng ng
P p Pw pw R r Ch ch T t W w Y y  

Source: http://www.prel.org/media/143130/48p_chuukese.pdf

Chuukese pronunciation

Chuukese pronunciation

http://www.multicsd.org/doku.php?id=chuukese

Download an alphabet chart for Chuukese (Excel)

Sample text in Chuukese

Esap wor och mettoch epwe appeti aramas seni fansoun ar uputiu non ar tufich me rait. Ar ekiek epwe mecheres o esap pet ren och sakkun mettoch pun ir repwe nonnomfengen non kinamwe o pwipwi annim.

Translation

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

Sample video in Chuukese

Information about Chuukese | Phrases | Numbers | Tower of Babel

Links

Information about the Chuukese language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuukese_language
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=chk
http://www.micronesiaforum.org/discussion/5275/chuukese-standard-writing-system/p2

Chuukese phrases
https://quizlet.com/87351298/chuukese-phrases-flash-cards/
http://emma96813.tripod.com/id11.html
http://www.jesuitvolunteers.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/So_you_want_to_learn_chuukese_-_only_for_Chuuk_JVs.pdf
http://www.hawaii.edu/cpis/mi_workshop/files/ChuukeseMedVocab.doc.pdf

Micronesian languages

Carolinian, Chuukese, Kiribati (Gilbertese), Kosraean, Marshallese, Mokilese, Mortlockese, Nauruan, Pááfang, Pingelapese, Pohnpeian, Puluwatese, Satawalese, Sonsorolese, Tobian, Ulithian, Woleaian

Languages written with the Latin alphabet

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