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	Palau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Palauans voted in 1979 not to join the Federated States of Micronesia, and chose independence instead.
		About two thirds of the population are Christians (mainly Catholics and Seventh-day Adventists), but Modekngei (a combination of Christianity, traditional Palauan religion and fortune telling) and the Ancient Palauan Religion is still the most commonly observed household religion.
		The official languages of Palau are Palauan and English, except for three states (Sonsorol, Hatohobei, and Anguar) where the local language is official instead of Palauan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ISO_3166-1:PW (837 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: Language (Pad-Pal) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pahari is a language with a number of different dialects spoken from the Punjab to Nepal along the southern spurs of the Himalayas.
		Pahi is a Tama language spoken in Papua New Guinea.
		Paici is a language spoken in New Caledonia.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /WPA.HTM (359 words)

	Palaun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Palaun is an Austronesian language spoken by the residents of the Republic of Palau.
		The language is also spoken in Guam and is now the national language of Palau.
		This was a former American Trust territory and therefore the use of English is quite common.
	www.flw.com /languages/palauan.htm (54 words)

	Encyclopedia: Abkhaz language
		Abkhaz is a Northwest Caucasian language, indicating it originated in the northwest Caucasus.
		The Abaza language (Абаза Бызшва/Abaza Byzšwa) is a language of the Caucasus mountains in the Russian autonomous republic of Turkey, where the Roman alphabet is used.
		The earliest extant written records of the Abkhazian language are in the Arabic alphabet, recorded by the Turkish traveller Evliya Celebi in the 17th century.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Abkhaz-language (1461 words)

	Micro chemistry - Travel
		The Palauans are vocally displeased about these goings on, but seem to take such happenings in their stride with little more than a shrug, as though they might be as inevitable as the other elements that shape their island lives - the daily sunrise, sunset and movement of the tides.
		While most Palauan women wear single kldait, chelbucheb or kluk beads around their necks on fl cotton strings, the most valuable udoud are large yellow or orange bracelets called bachel.
		Palauan language is distinct from Yapese, and the languages of Pohnpei and Chuuk are different again, even though the last three islands are each part of the same nation (Federated States of Micronesia) and are little more than 45 minutes from each other by plane.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/10/17/1066364472592.html (2424 words)

	Palau
		Palauan villages were and still are organized around 10 clans that are determined matrilineally.
		The local language, Palauan, is spoken throughout the islands, except for the Southwest Islands, where the people speak a Yapese dialect.
		Palauan is primarily a spoken language, so there is considerable confusion about the correct spelling of names.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/oldworld/pacific/palau.html (1112 words)

	Pacific Service Region - Republic of Palau
		Palauan culture is complex with many regulations and taboos that one must follow in order to prosper.
		Palauan is spoken by a majority of the population and is used daily within some governmental arenas as well as in the schools, community, and home.
		Palauan and English is taught in the schools with English gradually becoming the instructional language in high school.
	www.prel.org /pacserv/palau.asp (244 words)

	Palau - Portrait of Paradise - About Palau
		Palauan is primarily a spoken language, and much confusion exists about the correct spelling of names.
		Palauans use both names at present, and until a final decision is made on all spelling methods, confusion will abound.
		Palauans have not been able to stand against the outside world as a united nation because they have always been too busy fighting their local wars between villages and Clans.
	www.underwatercolours.com /neco.html (1023 words)

	Catholic Church in Micronesia:Palau
		Palauans were not avid church-goers, they found; only a fraction of those whose names were on the parish register as Catholics actually attended Sunday mass.
		Palauans working as errand boys or messengers could be seen at all times of the day bicycling up and down the roads of Koror.
		Palauan Catholics, like those in other parts of the mission, were forced to nurture their faith under trying circumstances and without the sacraments during the war.
	www.micsem.org /pubs/books/catholic/palau (13871 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Austronesian indigenous language, Palauan, has, as the result of a century of colonial domination by Spain, Germany, Japan and the US, come into prolonged contact with other non-local languages.
		Since this is a speech community undergoing second language death - of Japanese, we are interested in discovering whether, structurally, Palauan Japanese is dying in the same way as first language varieties are known to obsolesce (see, for example, Dorian's ground-breaking work on East Sutherland Gaelic).
		Does Palauan Japanese show evidence of being a mixed dialect that has undergone koineisation as a result of the mixture of Japanese dialects on Palauan soil during the first half of the 20th century?
	privatewww.essex.ac.uk /~dbritain/palau.html (505 words)

	DAIS-Public Library
		In the Maori language (Natives of Cook Islands), someone with a psychiatric disability is described by a phrase that loosely translates as "nobody’s home!" Interestingly, the Chamorro (native Guamanian) language uses the term inutil, meaning "useless", to describe someone with a disability.
		The language of Palau is not taught as a written language (it has become a written language through the use of English characters in an attempt to facilitate communication with English-speaking populations).
		Palauans do not believe that a person with a disability is necessarily personally guilty or wrong,; correction of the mistake absolves the responsibility for creating the disability.
	www.janejarrow.com /public_library/disability_studies/disinpalau.html (4541 words)

	Lonely Planet World Guide \| Destination Palau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was during this time that Palauan culture went through its greatest transformation: free public schools were opened, instructing islanders in a subservient dialect of the Japanese language, and village chiefs lost power to Japanese colonial bureaucrats.
		Palauans, however, held out, voting in 1978 against becoming a part of the Federated States of Micronesia in favor of retaining a separate identity.
		Palauan is spoken at home and in casual situations, while English is more common in business and government.
	www.statraveluk.lonelyplanet.com /pacific/palau (3742 words)

	Military Geology of Palau Islands, Caroline Islands
		The Palauan language was first reduced to writing by the Germans, whose spellings naturally were influenced by their own tongue.
		In language studies recently made, there have t'een advocates both of writing the language by means of the Roman alphabet and by using one of the generally accepted systems of phonetic symbols.
		In native language this name means "cave chicken", and the name was applied to a cave on the southeast side of the island where chickens were once kept.
	www.geocities.com /ctrlburn/introduction.html (5849 words)

	AskOxford: Where Have All the Languages Gone?
		One Palauan traditional fisherman born in 1894, for example, had names for more than 300 different species of fish and knew the lunar spawning cycles of several times as many species of fish as have been described in the scientific literature for the entire world.
		Because a large part of any language is culture-specific, people feel that an important part of their traditional culture and identity is lost too when their language disappears.
		But we must know our language to survive forever." The loss of most of the world's languages and cultures may be survivable, but the result will be a seriously reduced quality of life, if not the loss of the very meaning of life itself for some of the people whose unique voices will vanish forever.
	www.askoxford.com /worldofwords/wordfrom/vanish (990 words)

	Papers 13: mass media
		Palauan is first and foremost an oral language and now there is much controversy over Palauan spelling, which is causing difficulties for the media.
		A weekly Palauan language newspaper is scheduled to start in 2003 so that information on issues such as environment and development can filter through to the local community level.
		For instance, Palauan students visited the Ngardmau State Capitol in October 2002 and took part in a mock congress, which was taped and broadcast on local cable TV with considerable impact.
	www.unesco.org /csi/pub/papers2/siv7.htm (3353 words)

	Open Directory - Science:Social Sciences:Linguistics:Languages:Natural:Austronesian:Malayo-Polynesian:Western
		Cebuano is a Western Malayo-Polynesian member of the Austronesian language family, spoken by approximately 24% of the population in the Philippines.
		Chamorro, or Tjamoro, is a Western Malayo-Polynesian member of the Austronesian language family spoken by approximately 50% of the population of Guam and 20% of the Northern Mariana Islands.
		Malay is a Western Malayo-Polynesian member of the Austronesian language family spoken by approximately 47% of the population of Malaysia.
	dmoz.org /Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Languages/Natural/Austronesian/Malayo-Polynesian/Western/desc.html (455 words)

	Asian Experience
		The Rock Islands are remnants of ancient coral reefs, which have been lifted up by volcanic forces.
		Palauan is a spoken language and not easily written down.
		Palau has not been developed for the dry-land tourists; visitors are generally expected to head straight for the water and then under.
	www.geocities.com /asiaexp/journal4.htm (270 words)

	People
		Palauans appear to be the most Americanized of Micronesians; don't expect to see native dress.
		Palauan culture was traditionally matriarchal, with women choosing which males would be the clan chiefs.
		One sign left up by the protesters read, "NO MORE TYPHOON—GO HOME." Apparently to some Palauans, the fact that the families of the Echang residents had lived in Koror for four generations was outweighed by the fact that they had retained their own language as well as other traditions.
	www.asiatravel.com /pacific/palau/infoguide/people.html (302 words)

	Palau Storyboard
		The first of these is ironwood, or dort as it is known in the Palauan language.
		Palauan storyboards can be quite expensive by local standards and are usually purchased by tourists or high government officials and businessmen who are able to afford them.
		Palauans have different cemeteries such as community cemeteries, high clan, low clan and family graveyards.
	www.janesoceania.com /palau_storyboard (1459 words)

	Search Results for phonemic - Encyclopædia Britannica
		It is classified as belonging to the eastern branch of the Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) family of languages.
		As a result of studying the phonemic contrasts within a number of languages, Roman Jakobson, Gunnar Fant, and Morris Halle concluded in 1951 that segmental phonemes could be characterized in terms of...
		With the great progress made in phonetics in the late 19th century, it had become clear that the question whether two speech sounds were the same or not was more complex than might appear at first...
	www.britannica.com /search?query=phonemic&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (420 words)

	Sport Diver Magazine - Palau Presents Geri Murphy with Honorary Storyboard
		Until recently, Palauan history was preserved orally, the exception found in tales carved and painted on beams and gables of Bai meeting houses.
		The finest storyboards are made from ironwood, or dort as it is known in the Palauan language.
		The old Palauan legends are usually the subject of the storyboards, or legends from different islands in the Federated States of Micronesia, such as Yap.
	www.sportdiver.com /article.jsp?ID=32924 (798 words)

	belau
		The local language, Palauan, is spoken throughout the islands, except for the Southwest Islands, where the people speak a much different dialect then what is spoken on the main islands of Palau.
		Palau in not only know for it's magnificent Rock Islands surrounded by enchanting emerald waters abundant with marine life and inlands covered with thick lush forest, it is also know for it's people.
		Palauans are very hospitable people and very respectful as well.
	www4.eou.edu /~yaochj/belau.html (443 words)

	Palauan language -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Palauan language -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Palauan is the language spoken on (A chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean) Palau.
		It is a member of the (Click link for more info and facts about Austronesian family of languages) Austronesian family of languages, and is considered to be one of two belonging to the Western Austronesian group, all others considered to be members of the Oceanic subgroup.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/P/Pa/Palauan_language.htm (78 words)

	BentProp Supporters: Update #7 — It's The People
		Palauans were killed by both Japanese and American armed forces.
		Survival for the Palauans meant staying in caves in the day time when the American airplanes were out and about.
		Our Palauan friend wanted me to take a picture of him and send it to The Judge and tell him that this is the guy who saw him get shot down.
	bentpropsupporters.blogspot.com /2005/03/update-7-its-people.html (2781 words)

	Abstract: Veronica Gerassimova
		Since Georgopoulos (1985, 1991) (henceforth G.) and Chung and Georgopoulos (1988), it has been assumed that Palauan is one of the few languages which exhibit special marking along the UD chain, or wh-agreement (among other unusual characteristics).
		The pattern emerging from these data is that in Palauan UDs special marking appears only in the highest clause of the chain (7), (8) not on all intermediate clauses as previously reported.
		Third, languages with UD marking in the highest clause emerge as a typologically important group which deserves a deeper analysis of the form and function of this syntactic pattern.
	www.ling.hawaii.edu /afla/AbGerassimova.htm (699 words)

	Radio Australia - Pacific Beat - Stories - PALAU: Convention will meet to debate changes to Constitution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		We have a new number of people who have become eligible to vote and they would have to register and then have the thing by April, and the time is really a constraint issue, yes.
		It's interesting that while it says the two languages are official languages, in case of conflict, the English language prevails.
		They want to say that in case of conflict the Palauan language prevail, but we have not had a single conflict in the last twenty years.
	www.abc.net.au /ra/pacbeat/stories/s1309749.htm (565 words)

	Palauan language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Palauan (also spelled Belauan) is the language spoken on Palau.
		It is a member of the Austronesian family of languages, and is considered to be one of two languages in Micronesia (the other being Chamorro) belonging to the Western Malayo-Polynesian group, all others considered to be members of the Micronesian subgroup of Eastern Malayo-Polynesian.
		This page was last modified 09:30, 8 September 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Palauan_language (80 words)

	Semantic Compositions: September 6, 2004 - September 12, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Longtime watchers of the Language Log blogroll know that it's at least doubled in size since the beginning of 2004, but many of the newer entrants are only sporadically active, and even your host is often less active than he'd like.
		This served to remind your host of one language he has long considered desperately in need of spelling reform -- Palauan (the language of a gorgeous island that SC hopes to visit someday).
		Despite having read both Lewis Josephs' indispensable Palauan Reference Grammar and Marie Flora's "Phonology and Morphology of Palauan" (the latter a hard-to-find doctoral dissertation), SC can't keep himself from pronouncing that "ch" as anything but a glottal stop, and wishes fervently that a different character would be used.
	semanticcompositions.typepad.com /index/2004/week37 (2576 words)

	<head>SUSTAINABLE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN PALAU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The majority are proud to be Palauan - proud of the natural beauty of their islands and of their unique culture.
		They do not want to exchange their heritage for that of an alien Western culture although they are not opposed to borrowing elements from abroad which will strengthen and enrich their own culture.
		The majority also do not want to live in a multi-ethnic society; they value Palau as the only place on earth where Palauans and the Palauan language and culture reign supreme; while welcoming visitors and foreign residents, they seek to do so on their own terms.
	ftp.tuwien.ac.at /pub/soc/undp/palau.htm (462 words)

	OVCAA - WASC - Report - Manoa Campus - College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature
		The College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature is one of the four Arts and Sciences colleges and offers a broad curriculum in English studies, Hawaiian and foreign languages, second language studies, and linguistics.
		Children's language acquisition, focusing on the roles of prosody, speech formulas and verbal routines in the acquisition of grammatical morphemes.
		Korean linguistics, sociolinguistics and language pedagogy, and Micronesian linguistics.
	www.uhm.hawaii.edu /wasc/archives/2003/html/report_manoa_campus_portfolio_lll.htm (4639 words)

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