micronesian in English
adjective
1
of or relating to Micronesia, its people, or their languages.
In this very large family there are more than a thousand languages - including Polynesian, Melanesian, and Micronesian languages and others as far north as Formosa, but not the Papuan languages of New Guinea.
noun
1
a native of Micronesia.
The island populations of the Pacific Ocean have historically been divided, on the basis of geography and culture, into Polynesians, Micronesians , and Melanesians.
2
the group of Austronesian languages spoken in Micronesia.
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1. The prehistories of many Micronesian islands such as Yap are not known very well.