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== Classification == Marshallese, a [[Micronesian languages|Micronesian language]], is a member of the Eastern [[Oceanic languages|Oceanic]] subgroup of the [[Austronesian languages]].<ref name="hgb">{{harvp|Willson|2002|loc=1.1 General background}}</ref> The closest linguistic relatives of Marshallese are the other Micronesian languages, including [[Gilbertese language|Gilbertese]], [[Nauruan language|Nauruan]], [[Pohnpeian language|Pohnpeian]], [[Mokilese language|Mokilese]], [[Chuukese language|Chuukese]], [[Carolinian people|Refaluwash]], and [[Kosraean language|Kosraean]]. Marshallese shows 50% lexical similarity with [[Gilbertese language|Gilbertese]], [[Mokilese language|Mokilese]], and [[Pohnpeian language|Pohnpeian]].<ref name="eth" /> Within the [[Micronesia]]n archipelago, Marshallese—along with the rest of the Micronesian language group—is not as closely related to the more ambiguously classified Oceanic language [[Yapese language|Yapese]] in [[Yap State]], or to the [[Polynesian outlier]] languages [[Kapingamarangi language|Kapingamarangi]] and [[Nukuoro language|Nukuoro]] in [[Pohnpei State]], and even less closely related to the non-Oceanic languages [[Palauan language|Palauan]] in [[Palau]] and [[Chamorro language|Chamorro]] in the [[Mariana Islands]].
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