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Marshall Lewy |
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"Wyatt (engineer)" |
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| Marshallese Language ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Linguists describe the Marshallese language as belonging to the Austronesian Language Family, the most geographically widespread language family in the world (spreading from Madagascar to Easter Isand). Formosa (Taiwan) has been identified by linguists as the homeland of the original Austronesian language (this supports the theory on the human colonization of the Pacific islands, which postulates that the original settlers moved out of Southeast Asia). The Austronesian language family tree is divided at the top into two branches; those languages still spoken on Formosa, and the Malayo Polynesian languages (880 in all), to which Marshallese belongs. There are two major dialects in the Marshalls, correlating to the two chains of atolls: RALIK and RATAK. However, the difference between the two dialects is minor and Marshallese is considered homogeneous. Linguistic cognate studies have suggested that Marshallese is most closely related to the languages of Pohnpei, Kosrae, and Kiribati. These are some useful Marshallese terms and phrases. Don't be afraid to repeat the term or phrase more than once if at first you are not understood! Hello, goodbye, love - Iokwe (yokwe) |
| Marshall is a New York City filmmaker and writer. A claim to fame: he p.a.'d on Woody Allen's Hollywood Ending. So in the end credits, you get to see Marshall's name in that great Woody Allen font. What is that font? Can anyone use that font? |
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