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Anguarese language

Angaurese is one of the official languages of Palau. In Angaur Island the languages Angaurese and Japanese are official. It is a western Austronesian language. An official language is a language that is given a privileged legal status in a state, or other legally-defined territory. ... The Austronesian languages are a family of languages widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia. ...


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Japanese language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3890 words)
It is considered an agglutinative language and is distinguished by a complex system of honorifics—a reflection of the highly hierarchical nature of Japanese society—which has resulted in specific verbal forms which indicate the relative status of the speaker to the listener, as well as respect (or lack thereof) to the person being spoken of.
The Ryukyuan languages are spoken in the islands of Okinawa (沖縄) Prefecture.
Their use is often optional, since Japanese is described as a so-called pro-drop language, i.e., one in which the subject of a sentence does not always need to be stated.
Angaur Definition / Angaur Research (339 words)
Angaur (or Ngeaur) is an island in the island nation of PalauThe Republic of Palau (also spelled Belau) is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, located some 500 km east of the Philippines.
Angaur is the southernmost of the Palau Islands group in the Republic of Palau which lies about 800km (500 miles) east of Mindanao.
Angaur is a small island and a state of the Republic of Palau which lies about 800km (500 miles) east of Mindanao.
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