#palauan

[folkfashion]

Palauan woman, Dee Raya Antonio, Palau, by Miss Palau

[kkulbeolyeonghwa]

Colors in Ainu! - Ainu itak; iro

retar - white retara - white (Kaminokuni) kunne - black ekurok - true black hure - red kunnehure - brown toine - brown (Kaminokuni) ruhure - pink hukinane - green hukinatomne - green (Saru) kinane - green (Kaminokuni) (kon)kan(e/i) - gold sirokan(e/i )- silver nis iro - light blue siwnin - yellow (historically also blue&green) nikapiro - yellow (Bihoro) sikerpepeus - yellow (Horobetsu) sikerepepeun - yellow (Kaminokuni) katuwa - grey rayoci - rainbow-colored

The traditional Ainu color scheme has four colors; yellow, white, red and black.

The word for "color", iro, is from the same root as the Japanese word for it, 色; Proto-Japonic *erə is the root for both words. Did you know that this word is also the root for the Palauan word chiro meaning the same thing?

[gwendolynlerman]

Most Commonly Spoken Language in Each Country

I had to separate the legend from the map because otherwise, it would not have been legible. I am aware that the color distinctions are not always very clear, but there are only so many colors in the palette.

The legend is arranged in alphabetical order, and languages are grouped by family. Branches are represented by bullet points in which the languages within them are colored.

Afroasiatic

Chadic (Hausa): ochre

Cushitic (Oromo and Somali): light yellow-green

Semitic (Arabic to Tigrinya): yellow

Albanian: olive green

Armenian: mauve

Atlantic-Congo

Benue-Congo (Chewa to Zulu): blue-green

Senegambian (Fula and Wolof): faded blue-green

Volta-Congo (Ewe and Mooré): bright blue-green

Austroasiatic (Khmer and Vietnamese): dark blue-purple

Austronesian

Eastern Malayo-Polynesian (Fijian to Wallisian): dark brown

Malayo-Polynesian (Palauan): bright brown

Western Malayo-Polynesian (Malagasy to Tagalog): light brown

Eastern Sudanic (Dinka): foral white

Hellenic (Greek): black

Indo-European

Germanic (Danish to Swedish): light blue

English-based creoles (Antiguan and Barbudan to Vincentian Creole): medium/dark blue

Indo-Aryan (Bengali to Sinhala): purple

Iranian (Persian): gray

Romance (Catalan to Spanish) — red

French-based creoles (Haitian Creole to Seychellois Creole): dark red under French

Portuguese-based creoles (Cape Verdean Creole to Papiamento): dark red under Portuguese

Slavic — light green (Bulgarian to Ukrainian)

Inuit (Greenlandic): white

Japonic (Japanese): blanched almond

Kartvelian (Georgian): faded blue

Koreanic (Korean): yellow-orange

Kra-Dai (Lao and Thai): dark orange

Mande (Bambara to Mandinka): magenta/violet

Mongolic (Mongolian): red-brown

Sino-Tibetan (Burmese, Chinese*, and Dzongkha): pink

Turkic (Azerbaijani to Uzbek): dark green

Uralic

Balto-Finnic (Estonian and Finnish): light orange

Ugric (Hungarian): salmon

* Chinese refers to both Cantonese and Mandarin. Hindi and Urdu are grouped under Hindustani. Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian are grouped under Serbo-Croatian.

[possessivesuffix]

TIL: Palauan demonstrates the “Michael Jackson sound change” (same as attested in Northern Samoyedic): ∅ > ŋ / #_V

[urbannesian]

Happy early International Women's Day! Women of Pasifika 3.0

#UrbanNesian #iwd2019 #iwd #internationalwomensday #pasifika #polynesian #micronesian #melenesian #southpacificislanders #islanders #womenofpasifika #pacificislander #niuean #maori #tahitian #fijian #palauan #samoan #cookislander #tongan #solomon

[ayearinlanguage]

A Year in Language, Day 191: Palauan Palauan is an Austronesian language, more specifically a Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian language, spoken by some 17,000 in the island nation of Palau which is located in Micronesia (the geographic region, not the country). Most languages of Micronesia and Polynesia are in the Oceanic branch of Austronesian, but Palauan is not. It does nevertheless possess a number of similar features, such as a small consonant inventory (ten or so), and mostly analytic (i.e. non inflectional) grammar. A peculiarity of it's writing system is the use of "ch" to represent a glottal stop, the small consonant that in English comes in the middle of the two syllables of "uh-oh". This is because the sound used to be pronounced like the German "ch" as in "Bach", and Germany used to occupy the island.

[tidepoolspasifika]

#BeingMicronesian in Hawaii Means Lots Of Online Hate

This Palauan woman is fed up with racism against her community on social media.

[unique-factory]

#presenting #palauan #worriors #dances #danceshow #niceshot #photograpy #pose #sunsetview #appreciationpost @palauppr @hydie_sadu @hydiesadu (at Palau Pacific Resort)