Gilbertese

English

Etymology

Gilbert +‎ -ese

Proper noun

Gilbertese

1. An Austronesian language spoken in Kiribati.

Synonyms

• Kiribati

Translations

language

• Finnish: kiribati (fi)
• Irish: Gilbirtis f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kiribatisk

  Nynorsk: kiribatisk

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Noun

Gilbertese (plural Gilbertese)

1. Someone from the Gilbert Islands in Kiribati.

   Synonym: Kiribatian.

Further reading

• Ethnologue entry for Gilbertese, gil ⁠
• “Gilbertese”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.