Did you know Nauru Pacific Pidgin is threatened?

ALSO KNOWN AS		NPP, Melanesian-Chinese Mixed Pidgin English in Nauru
CLASSIFICATION		Pidgin or Creole, English based
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		cpi
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		Wurm 2007; Siegel 1990

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Information from: “Australia and the Pacific” (424-557) . Stephen A Wurm (2007) Routledge

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,000-9,999
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
several thousand

MORE ON VITALITY

Beginning to be superseded by English

SPEAKER ATTITUDE

low social status

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

In spite of low status, it remains a viable everyday language in Nauru, used in a commercial context, mainly in Chinese-run trade stores and restaurants.

PLACES: Nauru

						Glottolog														http://www.glottolog.org/glottolog/		"Glottolog." Online: http://www.glottolog.org/glottolog/.																															-0.53,166.93
070071197X		3	1		2007	Australia and the Pacific	Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages	424-557				Routledge			Abingdon						Stephen A Wurm	Wurm, Stephen A. 2007. Australia and the Pacific. In Christopher Moseley, Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, 1 edn., 424-557. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 070071197X	ll_pub							1000-9999	several thousand								low social status	In spite of low status, it remains a viable everyday language in Nauru, used in a commercial context, mainly in Chinese-run trade stores and restaurants.			Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)			Beginning to be superseded by English					Nauru

Nauru Pacific Pidgin

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Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,000-9,999

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Nauru Pacific Pidgin

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1,000-9,999

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