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} Palauan (likewise spelled Belauan) is the language spoken in Palau. These are the member of the Austronesian family of languages, and is considered to become one of 2 languages inside Micronesia (the more existence Chamorro) belonging to the Western Malayo-Polynesian group, all others considered to exist as members of the Micronesian subgroup of Eastern Malayo-Polynesian.

Palauan Language
List of common Palauan phrases.

Useful Palauan Phrases
Survival phrases in Palauan for travellers.

Vowel Reduction in Palauan Reduplicants
Paper arguing that base-reduplicant correspondence insufficiently predicts the form of the reduplicant in Palauan.


Regional: Oceania: Palau: Society and Culture






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