Carolinian
Spoken in:	Northern Mariana Islands
Region:	Saipan, Anatahan, and Agrihan islands, Carolines.
Total speakers:	3,000
Language family:	Austronesian  Malayo-Polynesian   Central Eastern    Eastern     Oceanic      Central-Eastern       Remote Oceanic        Micronesian         Micronesian Proper          Ponapeic-Trukic           Carolinian
Official status
Official language in:	Northern Mariana Islands
Regulated by:	no official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	map
ISO 639-3:	cal
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Carolinian is an Austronesian language spoken in the Northern Mariana Islands, where it is an official language along with English and Chamorro. Carolinian is most closely related to Satawalese, Woleaian, and Puluwatese. Estimates place the number of speakers at about 3,000. Carolinian is known as Refaluwasch by native speakers. It has a 31 characters in its alphabet.

References

• "Ethnologue report for language code:cal". Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Retrieved on April 28, 2005.

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