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How to Translate from Marshallese to Tongan
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Language Comparison: Marshallese vs Tongan
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Aspect | Marshallese | Tongan |
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Family | Austronesian | Austronesian, Polynesian |
Speakers | Approximately 55,000 | Approximately 187,000 |
Features | An Oceanic language spoken in the Marshall Islands, noted for its complex vowel system and distinctive consonant phonology | A Polynesian language with VSO (verb-subject-object) word order, characterized by its limited phonemic inventory and lack of consonant clusters; spoken mainly in Tonga |
Countries | Marshall Islands | Tonga, with communities in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States |
Writing System | Latin script | Latin script |
Tonal | No | No |
Grammatical Cases | No, but has a rich system of prepositions and verb inflections to denote spatial and temporal relations | No, uses word order and particles for grammatical relationships |
Derived From | Part of the Micronesian family within the larger Austronesian language group | Proto-Polynesian |
Loanwords | From English, Japanese, and other Pacific languages | From English, Samoan, and other Polynesian languages |
Dialects | Two main dialects: Rālik (western) and Ratak (eastern) | Primarily homogeneous, though some regional variation exists in informal speech across Tonga’s islands |
Alphabets | A, Ā, B, D, E, I, J, K, L, M, N, Ṇ, Ŋ, O, Ō, P, R, T, U, W | A, E, F, H, I, K, L, M, N, NG, O, P, S, T, U, V |
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