Review of the US Language Policy in the TTPI

Topping, Donald M (1985). Knudsen, Karen (ed.). Review of the US Language Policy in the TTPI. History of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands: Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Pacific Islands Conference. Manoa, HI: University of Hawaii at Manoa. pp. 105–132.

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Abstract: The islands of Micronesia were historically the first of the island groups in the Pacific to have their territories claimed by' a European country. They have also been claimed by more foreign powers than any other island group in the Pacific: Spain, Germany, Japan, and the United States. With each of these different colonial governments came a different governing language, each of which left its mark on the indigenous languages, vocabulary, idioms, and in the case of Chamorro, grammatical constructions. Each successive colonial government also brought its own language policy to the islands....