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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A member of an ethnic group in Oceania who speak the Chuukese language and constitute 48% of the population of the Federated States of Micronesia.

Proper Noun

1. 1
   A Trukic language of the Austronesian language family, spoken primarily on the islands of Chuuk in the Caroline Islands in Micronesia.

   "Chuukese has the unusual feature of permitting word-initial geminate (double) consonants."

Example

More examples

"Chuukese has the unusual feature of permitting word-initial geminate (double) consonants."

Etymology

From Chuuk + -ese.

Related phrases

caroline islandsethnic grouplanguage family

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