Chuukese

English

Alternative forms

• Trukese

Etymology

From Chuuk +‎ -ese.

Proper noun

Chuukese

1. A Trukic language of the Austronesian language family, spoken primarily on the islands of Chuuk in the Caroline Islands in Micronesia.

   Chuukese has the unusual feature of permitting word-initial geminate (double) consonants.

Translations

language

• Bengali: চুকীজ (cukij), চুকি (cuki)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 楚克語 / 楚克语 (Chǔkè yǔ)

• Estonian: tšuugi keel
• Finnish: chuuk (fi), chuukin kieli
• Indonesian: bahasa Chuuk
• Japanese: チューク語 (Chūku-go)
• Kannada: ಚೂಕಿಸೆ (cūkise)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: çûkî (ku) f

• Lithuanian: čiuko kalba
• Polish: język chuuk
• Russian: тру́кский (trúkskij), чу́укский (čúukskij)
• Tamil: சூகிசே (cūkicē)
• Telugu: చూకిస్ భాషా (cūkis bhāṣā)
• Vietnamese: tiếng Chuuk

Noun

Chuukese (plural Chuukese)

1. A member of an ethnic group in Oceania who speak the Chuukese language and constitute 48% of the population of the Federated States of Micronesia.

Translations

member of an ethnic group

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 楚克 (Chǔkè)

• Estonian: tšuugi
• Finnish: chuukilainen
• Macedonian: чучки (čučki)
• Portuguese: chuquês
• Russian: тру́кский (trúkskij)
• Swahili: kichuuk

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Chuukese terms

Further reading

• ISO 639-3 code chk (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Chuukese, chk ⁠