Mi|cro|ne|sian

Mi|cro|ne|sian
Mi|cro|ne|sian «MY kruh NEE zhuhn, -shuhn», adjective, noun.
–adj.
of or having to do with Micronesia (a group of small islands in the Pacific, east of the Philippines), its people, or their languages.
–n.
1. one of the natives of Micronesia, of mixed Melanesian, Polynesian, and Malay stock.
2. any one of the Austronesian languages spoken by these people.
[< Greek mīkrós small + nêsos island + English -ian; probably patterned on Polynesian]

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