Language code: mh
Technical information about ISO 639 language code mh
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The table below provides technical details for the Marshallese language, designated by the mh code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Marshallese Native Kajin M̧ajeļ |
| Family | Oceanic |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | RatakRālik |
| Related languages | Kiribati (Gilbertese)ChuukesePohnpeian |
| Key facts | Uses a Latin-based alphabet with special diacritics such as cedillas and underdotsDistinguishes both vowel length and voicing, giving it an unusually rich vowel systemOne of the few Micronesian languages with a documented contrast between dental and alveolar consonantsReduplication is heavily employed to mark aspect and intensityModern linguistic description only began with missionary work in the late 19th century |
| Sample phrase | Io̧kwe, eṃṃan ke? |
| Character encodings | |
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Marshallese belongs to the Austronesian language family, more specifically to the Oceanic subgroup. It is one of the official languages of the Marshall Islands. It is written using the Latin script (Marshallese alphabet). It is estimated that there are more than 80,000 speakers worldwide.
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*The graph shows a rough estimate of Marshallese speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ