馬紹爾語

馬紹爾語（馬紹爾語：或 ）是馬紹爾群島个官方語言，渠屬於南島語系。

 语音 

 辅音 
马绍尔语有22隻辅音(其中5隻是以两隻字母表示)，附加一隻软腭中央近音(在乃朝个书写系统常莊省略脫):
 Primary 双唇音 齿音腭音 软腭音 Secondary pal. vel. pal. vel. lab. plain lab.鼻音                 爆破音                翘舌音            近音            or    

 元音 
马绍尔语有4隻元音音位，每隻有好几种变体。
 马绍尔语元音 Simple realisations Main orthographies height phoneme unrounded rounded unrounded rounded front back front back High (close) /ɨ/ [i]  [ɯ]  [u]    Upper Mid (near-close) /ɘ/ [ɪ]  [ɤ]
(long)  [ʊ]  (or )     (or ) Lower Mid (open-mid) /ɜ/ [e]  [ʌ]
(short) [ɯ]     (or )   (or ) Low (open) /ɐ/ [ɛ]  [ɑ] [ɔ]    (or )

 正寫法 
近瑲把马绍尔语个正寫法经历爻一场改革。然而，多数人还是愿意使用过去个书写方式。渠使用拉丁字母，当中含有特殊记音符号。由于宗教派别弗同，马绍尔字母有几种弗同体系。天主教学校所教个拼写一般相同。公立学堂使用个拼写系统嚜在每個岛丄全有区别。下頭是乃歇常用个字母表。
 基本字母  读音   带变音符号的字母  读音   带长音符号的字母  读音         (or )   (or )                                        <small style="font-size:67%">(or )  <small style="font-size:67%">(or )                      (or )   (or )          (or )   (or )           (or )   (or )    (or  or )   (or  or )       (long) ̧ (or )  ̧ (or )   (short)  (or )   (or )                                      (or )   (or )           

参攷資料
 Bender, Byron W.  (1968).  Marshallese phonology.  Oceanic Linguistics, 7, 16-35.    
 Bender, Byron W.   (1969).  Spoken Marshallese: an intensive language course with grammatical notes and glossary. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 0870220705
 Bender, Byron W.  (1969).  Vowel dissimilation in Marshallese. In Working papers in linguistics (No. 11, pp. 88-96). University of Hawaii.
 Bender, Byron W.  (1973).  Parallelisms in the morphophonemics of several Micronesian languages.  Oceanic Linguistics, 12, 455-477.    
 Choi, John D.  (1992).  Phonetic underspecification and target interpolation: An acoustic study of Marshallese vowel allophony.  UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics (No. 82).    
Hale, Mark. (2007) Chapter 5 of  Historical Linguistics: Theory and Method. Blackwell
 Hale, Mark.  (2000).  Marshallese phonology, the phonetics-phonology interface and historical linguistics.  The Linguistic Review, 17, 241-257.

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