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Marquesan [ʻEo ʻenana (North Marquesan), ʻEo ʻenata (South Marquesan)]
Region: Marquesas Islands, Tahiti
Native speakers: 8,700 (2007 census)
Language family: Austronesian
ISO 639-3
Either:
mrq – North Marquesan
mqm – South Marquesan
Glottolog: nort2845 North, sout2866 South

Marquesan is a collection of East-Central Polynesian dialects, of the Marquesic group, spoken in the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia. They are usually classified into two groups, North Marquesan and South Marquesan, roughly along geographic lines. Spoken by around 8,700 speakers.

The Marquesas Islands are located in French Polynesia, an overseas land (domaine d’outre mer) of France. They have their own territorial president and make their own laws, but their head of state is the president of France and the islands are partly administered by representatives of the French government (commissaires) at the national and regional levels.

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LINKS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquesan_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquesas_Islands
https://www.ethnologue.com/language/mrq
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4150716
http://dobes.mpi.nl/projects/marquesan/
https://www.jw.org/en/
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