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Figure 2. The RMI's island chains
Image taken from the World Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-worldfactbook/print/rm.html
This work examines the dialect spoken on the capital island of Majuro, which, while part
of the Ratak chain, contains many lexical elements of the Rālik dialect as a result of Rālik
speakers moving to the capital.
1.2 A note on speakers
The data collected for this project came from a number of speakers, whose biographical
information is given in Table 1. These speakers vary in age, English speaking abilities,
where they grew up and time spent in the US. If the speaker had visited the US but not
lived there for any length of time, the amount of time is not given in Table 1. Of the
eleven speakers consulted, seven resided in Majuro at the time that the data were
collected. With the exception of two speakers (starred in Table 1), all speakers grew up
on Majuro. These two speakers grew up on Mili, but moved to Majuro sometime during
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