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Language group
Chuukic–Pohnpeic
Trukic–Ponapeic
Geographic
distribution
Micronesia
Linguistic classificationAustronesian
Subdivisions
Language codes
Glottologpona1247

The Chuukic–Pohnpeic or historically Trukic-Ponapeic languages are a family of Micronesian languages consisting of two dialect continua, Chuukic and Pohnpeic. They are the westernmost and historically most recent Micronesian languages.

Composition

Unique innovations

Chuukic-Pohnpeic has several unique innovations that separates it as a subgroup from the rest of Nuclear Micronesian. Among the most prominent are historical sound changes from Proto-Micronesian.

Historical sound changes

Chuukic-Pohnpeic languages share a number of historical sounds changes from Proto-Oceanic and Proto-Micronesian. Chuukic languages and Pohnpeic languages separately share later innovations.

Proto-Chuukic-Pohnpeic reflexes of Proto-Oceanic consonants
Proto-Oceanic *mp *mp,ŋp *p *m *m,ŋm *k *ŋk *y *w *t *s,nj *ns,j *j *nt,nd *d,R *l *n
Proto-Micronesian *p *pʷ *f *m *mʷ *k *x *y *w *t *T *s *S *Z *c *r *l *n
Proto-Chuukic-Pohnpeic *p *pʷ *f *m *mʷ *k *∅,r *y *w *t *j *t *t *c *r *l *n

Before /a/.

Reconstructed vocabulary

Reconstructed Proto-Chuukic-Pohnpeic Vocabulary
Proto-Chuukic-Pohnpeic English gloss Modern language reflexes
*awa mouth CAR aaw, PON aaw
*faa brave, strong CHK fa 'be brave, bold', MOK pa 'be talented'
*fawo-ni-pei name of Pohnpei Island CHK fóónupi, PON Pohnpei
*kurupʷu small young coconut CHK kurupʷ, PON kurupʷ 'immature coconut'
*pirafa to steal MRT púraf, PNG pirap
*waiya journey, be foreign CAR weey 'to travel', PON way 'be foreign, from abroad'
*woro- throat, neck CHK woro-mi 'to swallow', PON wɛrɛ 'his/her neck'

References

  1. Blust, Robert (2013). The Austronesian Languages. Canberra, Australia: Asia Pacific Linguistics. hdl:1885/10191. ISBN 9781922185075.
  2. Lynch, John; Malcolm Ross; Terry Crowley (2002). The Oceanic languages. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon. ISBN 978-0-7007-1128-4. OCLC 48929366.
  3. Bender, Byron W. (2003). "Proto-Micronesian Reconstructions: 1". Oceanic Linguistics. 42 (1): 4, 5. doi:10.2307/3623449. JSTOR 3623449.
  4. Bender, Byron W. (2003). "Proto-Micronesian Reconstructions: 2". Oceanic Linguistics. 42 (2): 271–281. doi:10.1353/ol.2003.0014.
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