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Marquesan is a collection of East-Central Polynesian dialects, of the Marquesic group, spoken in the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia. They are usually classified into two groups, North Marquesan and South Marquesan, roughly along geographic lines.〔See Charpentier & François (2015).〕 ==Phonology== The most striking feature of the Marquesan languages is their almost universal replacement of the or of other Polynesian languages by a (glottal stop).〔 Like other Polynesian languages, the phonology of Marquesan languages is characterized by a scarcity of consonants and a comparative abundance of vowels. The consonant phonemes are: Of this small number of consonants, is found only in eastern Nuku Hiva (Tai Pi Marquesan), and is found only in South Marquesan dialects. In writing, the phoneme is represented by n(g), and is represented as ʻ. Unlike Samoan, the is not an isolated nasal: it is found only in conjunction with a following . So, whereas the Samoan word for "bay" is ''faga'', pronounced , it is ''hanga'' in Tai Pi Marquesan, and is pronounced . (This word is useful to demonstrate one of the more predictable regular consonantal differences between the northern and southern dialects: in North Marquesan, the word is ''haka'', and in South Marquesan, it is ''hana''). The letter h is used to represent a wide range of sounds. It is sometimes realised phonetically as , and sometimes or , depending on the following vowel. The vowel phonemes are the same as in other Polynesian languages, long and short versions of each: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marquesan language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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