Alternate Names: Mortlock, Nomoi
Dialects: Lower Mortlock, Mid Mortlock, Upper Mortlock. 75% intelligibility of Puluwatese ,, 18% of Satawalese ,, 8% of Woleaian ,. Lexical similarity: 80%–85% with Chuukese ,, 83% with Puluwatese, 82% with Satawalese, 81% with Carolinian ,, 78% with Woleaian, 72% with Ulithian ,.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 5,900 in Micronesia (1989 census). 1,690 Upper Mortlock, 1,760 Mid Mortlock, 2,460 Lower Mortlock, about 1,000 elsewhere. Population total all countries: 5,940.
Language Use: Vigorous.
Language Development: NT: 1883.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Micronesia