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马绍尔语（馬紹爾語：Kajin M̧ajeļ或Kajin Majõl [kɑ͡æzʲinʲ(e͡ɤ) mˠɑɑ̯zʲɛ͡ʌɫ]）是马绍尔群岛所使用的一种马来-波利尼西亚语言。它有两种方言——西马绍尔语和东马绍尔语 。
马绍尔语有22个辅音（其中5个是以两个字母表示），附加一个软腭中央近音（在现在的书写系统通常省略）：
马绍尔语有4个元音音位，每个有好几种变体。
| 马绍尔语元音 | Simple realisations | Main orthographies | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| height | phoneme | unrounded | rounded | unrounded | rounded | |||
| front | back | front | back | |||||
| High | (close) | /ɨ/ | [i] | [ɯ] | [u] | i | u | |
| Upper Mid | (near-close) | /ɘ/ | [ɪ] | [ɤ] (long) |
[ʊ] | i (or ę) | o | ū (or ü) |
| Lower Mid | (open-mid) | /ɜ/ | [e] | [ʌ] (short) |
[o] | e | o̧ (or o̠) | ō (or ü) |
| Low | (open) | /ɐ/ | [ɛ] | [ɑ] | [ɔ] | a | ā (or ä) | |
不久前马绍尔语的正寫法经历了一场改革。然而，多数人还是愿意使用过去的书写方式。它使用一种拉丁字母，当中含有特殊记音符号。由于宗教派别的不同，马绍尔字母有几种不同体系。天主教学校所教的拼写一般相同。公立学校使用的拼写系统则在每个岛上都有区别。下面是现在常用的字母表。
| 基本字母 | 读音 | 带变音符号的字母 | 读音 | 带长音符号的字母 | 读音 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a | A | /ɐ/ [ɛ] /ɐ/ [ɑ] |
ā (or ä) | Ā (or Ä) | /ɐ/ [ɔ] | |||||
| b | B | /bˠ/ | ||||||||
| d | D | /r̪ˠ/ | ||||||||
| e | E | /ɜ/ [e] | ||||||||
| i | I | /ɨ/ [i] /ɘ/ [ɪ] |
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| j (or y)[來源請求] | J (or Y)[來源請求] | /j/ [ʒ] /j/ [j][來源請求] |
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| k | K | /k/ | ||||||||
| l | L | /l̪ʲ/ | ļ (or ł) | Ļ (or Ł) | /l̪ˠ/ | |||||
| m | M | /mʲ/ | m̧ (or m̠) | M̧ (or M̠) | /mˠ/ | |||||
| n | N | /n̪ʲ/ | ņ (or n̠) | Ņ (or N̠) | /n̪ˠ/ | n̄ (or ñ or ŋ) | N̄ (or Ñ or Ŋ) | /ŋ/ | ||
| o | O | /ɘ/ [ɤ] (long) | o̧ (or o̠) | O̧ (or O̠) | /ɜ/ [ʌ] (short) | ō (or ö) | Ō (or Ö) | /ɜ/ [o] | ||
| p | P | /pʲ/ | ||||||||
| r | R | /r̪ʲ/ | ||||||||
| t | T | /t̪ˠ/ | ||||||||
| u | U | /ɨ/ [ɯ] /ɨ/ [u] |
ū (or ü) | Ū (or Ü) | /ɘ/ [ʊ] | |||||
| w | W | /w/ /ʷ/ |
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