Marshallese is the language of the Marshall Islands, where it holds official status alongside English. It belongs to the Micronesian branch of the Austronesian family and has two main dialects, Ratak and Ralik, named after the country's eastern and western island chains; the two are mutually intelligible. The spelling system uses the Latin alphabet with several modified letters, and the language is known among linguists for its unusually complex vowel system. Speakers number somewhere around 50,000. Under a compact with the United States, Marshall Islanders can live and work there freely, and substantial Marshallese-speaking communities have grown up in Arkansas, especially Springdale, and in Hawaii, so a meaningful share of speakers now lives outside the islands.
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