The Yapese language refers to the language spoken specifically on the Yap Main Islands, and does not include the Chuukic languages spoken in the Yap Neighboring Islands: Ulithian, Woleaian, and Satawalese (and to an extent, Nguluwan).

Yapese is a member of the Oceanic branch of the Malayo-Polynesian language family. It is spoken by about 5,000 people in the island of Yap, part of the Federated States of Micronesia, an archipelago of islands in the Pacific Ocean to the northeast of Papua New Guinea.

Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. http://www.talkingdictionary.org/yapese. Interface and database design under the direction of Jeremy Fahringer and Swarthmore College ITS. A searchable Yapese-English lexicon.

This book is part of the Island Alphabet Books series, which features languages and children’s artwork from the U.S.-affiliated Pacific. Each book contains the complete alphabet for the language, four or five examples for each letter, and a word list with English translations.

A collection of useful phrases in Yapese, a member of the Oceanic branch of the Malayo-Polynesian language family spoken on Yap in Micronesia.

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This Yapese-English dictionary is a crude first attempt at making available in published form a list of some of the words of Yapese, with some of their meanings in English.

Sep 6, 2024 · Yapese is an Austronesian language in the Oceanic branch, spoken on the island of Yap (Wa'ab) in the Federated States of Micronesia. While its classification is challenging, it may belong to...

THE 1977 YAPESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY written by John Thayer Jensen with the assistance of John Baptist Iou, Raphael Defeg, and Leo David Pugram. Please note that the 1977 Yapese Reference Grammar is available here. A larger more browsable Yapese dictionary is …

Appx. 250 Yapese DoE texts produced by a variety of teachers working in the Yap Department of Education during those years, and which I have edited into a standardised orthography (never …