Carolinian people

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The Carolinian people are an Austronesian ethnic group of Micronesia, traditionally seafaring navigators and settlers of islands such as the Northern Mariana Islands and parts of the Federated States of Micronesia.

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Label Occurrences
Carolinian 1
Carolinian people canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian people
ethnic group
autonym Refaluwasch NERFINISHED
colonialHistoryWith Germany NERFINISHED
Japan NERFINISHED
Spain NERFINISHED
United States NERFINISHED
continent Oceania
culture canoe-building traditions
oral tradition
seafaring navigation traditions
demographicGroupIn Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands NERFINISHED
Federated States of Micronesia NERFINISHED
ethnolinguisticGroup Austronesian NERFINISHED
hasDemonym Carolinian NERFINISHED
historicalReligion indigenous Micronesian beliefs
languageBranch Micronesian languages NERFINISHED
languageFamily Austronesian languages
nativeTo Caroline Islands NERFINISHED
Federated States of Micronesia NERFINISHED
Northern Mariana Islands NERFINISHED
navigationSystem traditional star navigation
wave-piloting
ocean Pacific Ocean
partOf population of the Federated States of Micronesia
population of the Northern Mariana Islands
primaryLanguage Carolinian language NERFINISHED
Refaluwasch language
region Micronesia NERFINISHED
relatedEthnicGroup Chamorro people NERFINISHED
Chuukese people NERFINISHED
Melanesian people
Polynesian people NERFINISHED
Yapese people NERFINISHED
religion Christianity
Protestant Christianity
surface form: Protestantism

Roman Catholicism
settled Chuuk State NERFINISHED
Northern Mariana Islands NERFINISHED
Rota NERFINISHED
Saipan NERFINISHED
Tinian NERFINISHED
Yap State NERFINISHED
traditionalOccupation fishing
navigation
seafaring
usesScript Latin script

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Woleaian people relatedGroup Carolinian people
Elato hasEthnolinguisticAffiliation Carolinian people
this entity surface form: Carolinian