Palauan language

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"Palauan" redirects here. For the Iraya dialect, see Palauan-Calavite

Palauan
Spoken in:	Palau
Total speakers:	15,000
Language family:	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Nuclear MP Sunda-Sulawesi Palauan
Official status
Official language in:	Palau
Regulated by:	no official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	`pau`
ISO 639-3:	`pau`
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode.

Palauan (also spelled Belauan) is the language spoken on Palau. It is a member of the Austronesian family of languages, and is considered to be one of two languages in Micronesia (the other being Chamorro) belonging to the Western Malayo-Polynesian group, all others considered to be members of either the Micronesian or Polynesian outlier subgroups of Eastern Malayo-Polynesian.

Palauan	English
Chochoi	Yes
Ngdiak	No
Ke uangerang?	How are you?
Alii	Hello/Are you there?
Ke mlar ker?	Where did you go?
Ke mor ker?	Where are you going?
Sulang	Thank you
Ke chad er ker el beluu?	Where are you from?

Ethnologue report for language code:pau. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Retrieved on 8 September 2005.
http://www.pacificworlds.com/palau/onwards/lang8.cfm
http://www.tlfq.ulaval.ca/axl/pacifique/belau.htm (French page)
http://www.prel.org/PALM/Palauan/index.asp

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