1. Family: Austronesian
  2. Subfamily: Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
  3. Genus: Oceanic

Marquesan

WALS coordinates: 8° 55′ S, 140° 5′ W

spoken in French Polynesia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Marquesan
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Marquisien,
    • Marquesan, South,
    • Marquesan, North
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Morphology
    Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
    Nominal Syntax
    Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Differentiation
    Simple Clauses
    Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Double-object construction