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Language code: pau

Technical information about ISO 639 language code pau

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The table below provides technical details for the Palauan language, designated by the pau code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

pau

Name

Palauan

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Koror dialectBabeldaob dialect
Related languages
ChamorroCarolinianMalay
Key facts
Written with an adapted Latin alphabet that includes digraphs such as “ch” and the digraph-letter “ng”Shows an ergative–absolutive alignment that is rare among Austronesian tonguesContains many Japanese and English loanwords due to 20th-century contactUses dozens of numeral classifiers that depend on the shape or function of the counted objectEmploys nasal substitution in verb derivation, where an initial consonant is replaced by a nasal sound
Sample phrase

Alii, ke ua ngerang?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Palauan language, identified by the code pau, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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