Endangered Languages Project - Nauruan

Nauruan

^{[aka Nauru,]}

Classification: Austronesian

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threatened

ALSO KNOWN AS		Nauru
CLASSIFICATION		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Micronesian
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		nau
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
6,000
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
6,000 (Bender and Rehg 1991), decreasing.

DATE OF INFO: 1991

MORE ON VITALITY

decreasing

PLACES: Nauru;

MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Used as a second language by speakers of Kiribati, Tuvalu, Kosraean and Marshallese living on Nauru.

MORE ON VITALITY

Nauruan children tend not to learn Nauruan any more

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

English

More on Orthography

High literacy level

PLACES: Nauru

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
6,000
Native speakers worldwide

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
6,000
Native speakers worldwide

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LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

-0.5,166.916666667

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Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press