Languages of Micronesia

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Composer: Ross Bugden
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References
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[MeLancer]

Thanks for your post. In 1964 I served on a ship that patrolled the Caroline Islands, and Marianas extensively. In addition, we visited Rabaul, New Britain of Papua New Guinea and south through the Solomon Islands. My home port at the time was Guam. We also patrolled the Bonin Islands north of the Marianas.

[matthewtopping]

This is awesome! I haven't heard about Micronesian languages in this much detail before

[Danideru]

fascinating little overview and introduction to all the different languages of micronesia. saina ma'åse for making this content, always a pleasure to learn from you ✌

[sisirena]

Nice. I speak Chamorro, Pohnpeian and almost all the Chuukic sub languages. I find that there are a few chuukic ancient languages, like the one used in medicine and ritual, are more similar to pohnpeian and maybe proto chuukic. If this is correct, I'd wish the inhabitants can take a look and these words and learn more from them as they might offer more insight into the development and branching of the source of these languages.

[toribiongmaterne]

Damn that's is amazing! Sulang olei!

[uts]

I’m outer island Chuukese (aka Fanapii) from the Mortlocks. I can kinda understand the people with the Puluwatese dialect. Sometimes lagoon Chuukese is a little bit hard for me, but for the most part I can understand them. And I can understand the people who speak Carolinian as well as Satawalese (I believe the Carolinians came from them). All the other Chuukic-languages I don’t understand. Like I can see a lot of similarities in some of our words, but if they were to fully speak to me in their language, I wouldn’t understand what they were saying. It must be from the Palauan and Yapese influence.

[ArchaeologyStudio]

Nice review! This video is so useful and easy to follow! I like how you clarified about the "proto" language concept and continued with showing the language tree diagram

[everettduncan]

Nukuoro and Kapingamarangi are closest to several Melanesian Polynesian outliers along with Tuvaluan

[wallycs]

Can you give us a look to what life is like there modern day? Heading out there fairly soon and trying to grab insight :)

[JTLI]

Micronesians and their siblings next to them: 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

Nauruan: 🥲

Yapese: 🙃

Nauruan 🫱🏾‍🫲🏿 Yapese

The Polynesian outliers, Kapingamarangi & Nukuoro: 🧐🤨

[faanengaaw]

Im a Chuukese speaker from Chuuk lagoon & i can understand Carolinian & the Southwest islands of Palau.

[moanaexplorer]

Aroha,
It is possible to share your languages map and your board ? Please.
Congrats for this video, very instructive

[guaiyaxs]

a Wa’abese can learn, speak Belauan and Chamoru languages fluently but a Belauan and Chamoru can never learn Wa’abese fluently. Talking about rice fields in Guahan but y’all never seen the hills of Wa’ab.. talk about pottery designs but y’all never seen the pieces of pottery that the Japanese destroy!! Too long we get thrown under the bus 😂

[elchivorusso]

Years ago i found my first micronesian ( chukese )
Juicy wife ❤

[hanzlan]

Would you consider the Ogasawara Islands as Micronesian too?

[jackyama]

I dont know but I'm from pohnpei and most of our current words are Japanese words which means we speak mix Japanese now....our high words which our ancestors and kings used that I think is an oceanic descendant..as for nukuoro and kapingamarangi their originated from Polynesia speaking hard to understand language like tied up Ramen noodles..Lol No offense guys.

[agassicarlosdecx]

Great vid chelu. Can you do a vid about the pros on cons of Guam being independent sovereign nation like Tonga and what struggles it would have to face, fears from China takeover, choosing sides with a superpower, following the lead of Singapore as an example, maybe joining forces with FSM and Palau and CNMI, what about a standing military if we are invaded, if we should be capitalist or communist, etc. ?

[dannyreidy]

Do you know whether colonization has a greater effect on certain languages more than others? For instance, a majority of Chamorros, even if they spent their whole life in Guam, don’t speak the language. Of course, the opposite is true in many areas of Micronesia.

[ldyer]

Damn, I looked this up to see if I could learn the native language of my new coworker to maybe make him feel more welcome, but now I need to ask what specific island he’s from😂

[Coastalkeaton]

What map is this? Is there a photo online that I can download this language map.