south marquesan language

colspan="2" bgcolor=pink style="font-size:120%"\|South Marquesan (‘E‘o ‘Enana)
valign="top"\|Spoken in:	Southern Marquesas Islands, Tahiti
valign="top"\|Total speakers:	~5,000
valign="top"\|Ranking:	not in top 100
valign="top"\|Genetic classification:	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Eastern Polynesian Oceanic Central-Eastern Oceanic Remote Oceanic Central Pacific East Fijian-Polynesian Polynesian Nuclear Polynesian Eastern Polynesian Central Eastern Polynesian Marquesic South Marquesan
colspan="2" bgcolor=pink\|Official status
valign="top"\|Official language of:	valign="top"\| ''unofficial local use in the southern Marquesas Islands
valign="top"\|Regulated by:	valign="top"\| -
colspan="2" bgcolor=pink\|Language codes
a href="/encyclopedia/ISO-639" title="ISO 639">ISO 639-1	-
SO 639-2	-
a href="/encyclopedia/SIL" title="SIL">SIL	QMS

South Marquesan is the Marquesic, East Central Polynsian language spoken in the southern Marquesas Islands, as well as on Ua Huka in the nortern Marquesas. The three most noticible differences between it and North Marquesan are its preference for /n/, /f/ and // (glottal stop) in some cases where North Marquesan uses /k/, /h/ and /k/. This difference can be seen in such pairs as

North Marquesan <==> South Marquesan

haka <==> fana (bay)

ha`e <==> fa`e (house)

koe <==> `oe (you (singular))

Even the name of the island Ua Huka is, in South Marquesan, "Ua Huna". The dialects fall roughly into four groups:

Pepane: Eastern Hiva `Oa

Fatu Hiva

Nuku: Western Hiva `Oa and Tahuata

Ua Huka, spoken on that island, and closely related to those of eastern Hiva Oa

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