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 | | Palauan 64.7% official in all islands except Sonsoral (Sonsoralese and English are official), Tobi (Tobi and English are official), and Angaur (Angaur, Japanese, and English are official), Filipino 13.5%, English 9.4%, Chinese 5.7%, Carolinian 1.5%, Japanese 1.5%, other Asian 2.3%, other languages 1.5% (2000 census) |
 | | Early Palauans may have come from the Philippines, Indonesia, New Guinea, and Polynesia, settling the islands as early as 1000 B.C. Prior to the influences of colonialism, Palauans had well established matriarchal social systems, including matrilineal inheritance(2). |
 | | The major ethnic group (70%) is the native Palauans, who are of Melanesian, Micronesian, and Polynesian decent. |
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