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Marshallese, n. and a.|mɑːʃəˈliːz| [f. the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean + -ese.] A. n. a. The language of the inhabitants of the Marshall Islands. b. The inhabitants themselves. B. adj. Of or pertaining to this language.
1945Language XXI. 267 (heading) Notes on Marshallese consonant phonemes. Ibid., The orthography of Marshallese was devised by American Protestant missionaries in the middle of the last century. 1964E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Transl. iii. 54 In Marshallese, a language of Micronesia, a number of psychological states are described in terms of the throat. 1970Language XLVI. 672 He [sc. Bender] claims that the mid-high vowels of the surface representations of Marshallese are not present in the underlying representations. 1971Ibid. XLVII. 734 The glossary..differentiates between some Marshallese words which are semantically and phonemically distinct but tend to be spelled alike by previous European students of the language—and by most Marshallese. 1972J. L. Dillard Black English iv. 161 In the case of Melanesian Pidgin,..he also recognizes the influence of a similar structure in Marshallese. |