"[Äiwoo] is the home language for nearly all households in the main Reef Islands... [it] is reportedly expanding at the expense of other local languages, and as such it appears to be in no immediate danger of extinction."

"At present, many of the male Äiwoo speakers, middle-aged or above, with whom we have worked claim to have some knowledge of the Vaeakau-Taumako language... we have observed interactions where both languages appear to be used, with frequent code-switching on both sides. Pijin is also used, but we do not know what determines the choice of language in such situations... Village level meetings and gatherings are held mainly in Äiwoo."

Four different orthographies designed since the 1970s; "it is difficult to say how many people are literate in any of them, or how many actively write their language."