Ebook: Introduction to Trukese

Pacific and Asian Linguistics Institute, University of Hawaii, 1967. — 475 p.Chuukese /tʃuːˈkiːz/, also rendered Trukese /trʌˈkiːz/,is a Trukic language of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily on the islands of Chuuk in the Caroline Islands in Micronesia. There are some speakers on Pohnpei and Guam as well. Estimates place the number of speakers at about 45,000 including second-language speakers.Chuukese has the unusual feature of permitting word-initial geminate (double) consonants. The common ancestor of Western Micronesian languages is believed to have had this feature, but most of its modern descendants have lost it.