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Notes on Marshallese Consonant Phonemes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Denzel Carr*
Affiliation:
U. S. Naval Reserve

Extract

ORTHOGRAPHY. The orthography of Marshallese was devised by American Protestant missionaries in the middle of the last century. The Bible has been translated into Marshallese and written in what we refer to as the Bible spelling. If the Marshallese were good spellers, the Bible spelling would probably be as hallowed in practice as in theory. As it is, many valuable clues to phonemic facts in Marshallese have been derived from variant spellings. The linguist loveth a cheerful misspelled

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Copyright © 1945 Linguistic Society of America

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