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The Palauan language is an outlier among the Austronesian languages, and so does not shed much light on the origins of the modern population.
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Palauan and language
Elements from the Spanish language were also integrated into the Palauan lexicon ; the Palauan word for hammer, " martiliong ", is derived from the Spanish " martillo ".
The native inhabitants speak a variety of Micronesian languages including Yapese, Pohnpeian, Chuukese, Carolinian and Kosraean, as well as the Western Malayo-Polynesian language Palauan.
* the SIL code, a language code, for the Palauan language
Rather, like Palauan, it constitutes a possibly independent branch of the Malayo-Polynesian language family.
Palauan is not a Micronesian or Polynesian language like most of its neighbors ; rather, like Chamorro, it constitutes a possibly independent branch of the Malayo-Polynesian languages.
* Palauan language, an Austronesian language, spoken in Palau and Guam
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Palauan and is
* The Palau National Congress ( Palauan: Olbiil era Kelulau ) is the bicameral legislative branch of the Republic of Palau.
The explanation for the choice of colours is rooted in the history and customs of the Palauan people.
Palauan ( also spelled Belauan ) is one of the two nationally recognized official languages spoken in the Republic of Palau ( the other being English ).
It is the sixth largest state in terms of land, with an area of roughly 40 square kilometers, and it is located on the eastern side of the island of Babeldoab Island, northwest of Airai State, and southeast of Melekeok State, where the Palauan government is situated.
Nakamura is the son of a Japanese immigrant from Matsusaka, Ise Province and a Palauan chieftain's daughter.
Modekngei religion is a hybrid of ancient Palauan customs and Christianity.
The goal of Modekngei religion is to preserve ancient Palauan traditions in a way that aligns itself with Christian salvation.
Palauan and outlier
Under the Japanese administration, all Palauan children were required to attend school, and by the 1930s, nearly all Palauan children were literate in Japanese, with the exception of children in outlier islands, specifically the Southwest Islands.
Palauan and Austronesian
Some languages require their counterpart to the English by-phrase be present ( like Palauan and Indonesian, Austronesian languages ).
Palauan and languages
During World War II, in an effort to build consciousness in people as subjects of the Japanese Empire, not only Ryukyuan, but also Korean, Palauan, and various other languages were referred to as " dialects " of Japanese.
Palauan and on
After eight referendums and an amendment to the Palauan constitution, the Compact was ratified in 1993 and went into effect on October 1, 1994, marking Palau independent de jure ( after Palau was independent de facto since May 25, 1994, when the trusteeship cancelled ).
The Japanese had perhaps the most profound impact on Palauan society.
About 70 % of the Palauan population lives in the city of Koror on Koror Island.
The Encyclopedia of Religion, in its article on yoni, notes the similarity between the positioning of many sheela na gigs above doorways or windows and the wooden female figures carved over the doorways of chiefs ' houses ( bai ) in the Palauan archipelago.
While staying on Koror, he met a Palauan woman named Metauie, who became his wife.
Chief Pharmacist Lawrence Zembsch — who had treated Ellis during his hospitalization — travelled on a Japanese steamer to Palau, where he stayed at the Japanese officer's barracks ( Ellis had stayed with native Palauan nobility and married a young Palauan chefress ).
Palauan and modern
The modern Palauan pop music scene began in the mid-1980s.
Palauan and .
* 1933 – Haruo Remeliik, Palauan politician, 1st President of Palau ( d. 1985 )
Although the German occupation had lasted a mere 15 years, major changes in Palauan society had occurred.
Under the Japanese government, heads of the Palauan traditional government were replaced by more " Japanese " natives, as a way of securing the obedience of the Palauan people.
At one point, the civil struggle had resulted to the point of anarchy, and the King of the Southern Federation of Palau, the Ibedul, assumed responsibility over governing the Palauan islands which thereby established a temporary state of absolute monarchy.
The service sector dominates the Palauan economy, contributing more than 80 % of GDP and employing three-quarters of the work force.
In a related matter, former Palauan President Kuniwo Nakamura once said with an ironical smile, " That's one way of putting it.
The phonemic inventory of Palauan consists of 10 consonants and 6 vowels.
The state also contains one of the four Palauan bais, or men's meetinghouses, the other three are in Koror, Airai, and Melekeok.
While both Palauan athletes finished 53rd, there was a significant difference between Roman, who was the last placed finisher in the 200 metres, and Florencio, who finished ahead of several other runners and set a new personal best.
This year's youngest Palauan Olympian, 15-year-old Evelyn Otto finished well behind the time necessary to proceed to the next round.
language and is
He speaks your language too, for he is the grandson of a chieftain on Taui who made much magic and was strong and cunning.
When Heidegger and Sartre speak of a contrast between being and existence, they may be right, I don't know, but their language is too philosophical for me.
it is a mystique, and their private language is rich in the multivalent ambiguities of sexual reference so that they dwell in a sexualized universe of discourse.
For this reason, too, their language is more forthright and earthy.
Jazz is the musical language of sex, the vocabulary of the orgasm ; ;
Of the longer pieces of the volume none is so memorable as `` Nameless And Immortal '', which at once took rank among the finest poems ever written in the Swedish language.
The capacity for making the distinctions of which diplomacy is compact, and the facility with language which can render them into validity in the eyes of other men are the leader's means for transforming the moral intuition into moral leadership.
and it is surely clear that the first of these is the result of the way in which the individual's command of language interacts with the other two.
How literature does this, or for whom, is certainly not clear, but the content, form, and language of the `` message '', as well as the source, would all play differentiated parts in giving and molding a sense of purpose.
But to go from here to the belief that those more sensitive to metaphor and language will also be more sensitive to personal differences is too great an inferential leap.
Much of his earlier work was conceived in terms of a `` pseudo-anthropological '' myth reference, which is concerned with imaginary places and beings described in grandiloquent and travelogue-like language.
This, in more diplomatic language, is what Adlai Stevenson told the newspaper men of Latin America yesterday on behalf of the United States Government.
This is going to be a language lesson, and you can master it in a few minutes.
One is impressed with the dignity, clarity and beauty of this new translation into contemporary English, and there is no doubt that the meaning of the Bible is more easily understandable to the general reader in contemporary language in the frequently archaic words and phrases of the King James.
Some of the poetic cadence of the older version certainly is lost in the newer one, but almost anyone, with a fair knowledge of the English language, can understand the meaning, without the necessity of interpretation by a Biblical scholar.
but I am also a young, able and willing girl who wants to study the Chinese language but is not old enough.
A significant reduction in the voume of store information is thus realized, especially for a highly inflected language such as Russian.
Here again, in the written language it is possible to help the reader get his stresses right by using underlining or italics, but much of the time there is simply reliance on his understanding in the light of context.
It is clear that patterns of stress sometimes show construction unambiguously in the spoken language where without the help of context it would be ambiguous in the written.
In the first of these sentences if by is the complement of come and Tuesday is an adjunct of time equivalent to on Tuesday, there will be strong stress on by in the spoken language ; ;
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