|Native to||Federated States of Micronesia|
|51,000 (2000 census)|
Official language in
|Federated States of Micronesia|
Chuukese //, also rendered Trukese //, is a Trukic language of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily on the islands of Chuuk in the Caroline Islands in Micronesia. There are some speakers on Pohnpei and Guam as well. Estimates place the number of speakers at about 45,000 including second-language speakers.
Chuukese has the unusual feature of permitting word-initial geminate (double) consonants. The common ancestor of Western Micronesian languages is believed to have had this feature, but most of its modern descendants have lost it.
Truk and Chuuk are a difference in orthography: Both older tr and current ch transcribe the sound [tʂ].
- Chuukese at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Chuukese". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh
- "Reflexes of initial gemination in Western Micronesian languages". University of California, Los Angeles. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 24, 2013. Retrieved 8 September 2005.
- Chuukese Wordlist at the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database (Archive)
- Howard, Jocelyne. "CHUUKESE TRANSLATIONS." (Archive) University of Hawaii.