Chuukic languages

"Trukic languages" redirects here; not to be confused with Turkic languages or Chukchi language.

Chuukic (/ˈtʃuːkɪk/), historically also rendered as Trukic^{[1][original research?]} (/ˈtruːkɪk/), is a subgroup of the Chuukic–Pohnpeic family of the Austronesian language family.^[2] The languages are primarily spoken in Chuuk State and Yap State of the Federated States of Micronesia, as well as in the outer islands of Palau. The Carolinians of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands also speak their own language distinct from the historically native Chamorro people.

Chuukic
Trukic
Geographic distribution	Micronesia
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Micronesian Micronesian Proper Nuclear Micronesian Chuukic–Pohnpeic Chuukic
Proto-language	Proto-Chuukic
Language codes
Glottolog	truk1243
Map of the Micronesian languages; Chuukic languages are shaded in red.

Languages

• Sonsorol and Tobian (close enough to each other to often be considered dialects)
• Chuukese
• Woleaian and Ulithian
• Puluwatese, Namonuito, and Tanapag
• Carolinian
• Satawalese and Mortlockese (closely related)
• Pááfang
• Mapia (extinct)

Phonology

Proto-Chuukic reflexes of Proto-Oceanic consonants^[3]

Proto-Oceanic	*mp	*mp,ŋp	*p	*m	*m,ŋm	*k	*ŋk	*ŋ	*y	*w	*t		*s,nj	*ns,j	*j	*nt,nd	*d,R	*l	*n	*ɲ
Proto-Micronesian	*p	*pʷ	*f	*m	*mʷ	*k	*x	*ŋ	*y	*w	*t	*T	*s	*S	*Z	*c	*r	*l	*n	*ɲ
Proto-Chuukic-Pohnpeic	*p	*pʷ	*f	*m	*mʷ	*k	*∅,r1	*ŋ	*y	*w	*t	*T	*t	*t	∅	*c	*r	*l	*n	*ɲ
Proto-Chuukic	*p	*pʷ	*f	*m	*mʷ	*k	*∅	*ŋ	*y	*w	*t	*T	*d	*d	∅	*c	*r	*l	*n	*ɲ

¹ before /a/