Nguluwan language

Nguluwan
Native to	Federated States of Micronesia
Region	Ngulu Atoll
Native speakers	50 (2000)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Admiralty Islands ? Yapese Nguluwan; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nuw
Glottolog	ngul1236[2]
	Nguluwan
	Coordinates: 8.45°N 137.34°E

Nguluwan is a mixed language spoken on an atoll of that name between Yap and Palau. The grammar and lexicon are Yapese, but the phonology has been affected by Ulithian, and speakers are shifting to that language.

References

Nguluwan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nguluwan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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[e18-1] Nguluwan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nguluwan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.