Ralik Chain


The Ralik Chain is a chain of islands within the island nation of the Marshall Islands. Ralik means "sunset". It is west of the Ratak Chain. In 1999 the total population of the Ralik islands was 19,915. Christopher Loeak, who became President of the Marshall Islands in 2012, was formerly Minister for the Ralik Chain.
List of atolls and isolated islands in the chain:
The Rālik Chain is home to the Rālik dialect of the Marshallese language. It is mutually intelligible with the Ratak dialect located on the Ratak Chain. The two dialects differ mainly in lexicon and in certain regular phonological reflexes.