Informationen von: “The Acquisition of Kosraean and English: A Diglossic Community at a Crossroads” (200) . Sou, Jennifer (2022)
Gefährdet
100 percent certain, based on the evidence available
7,790
Native Language of roughly 6,620 people (FSM Census 2010) of the small island state of Kosrae, and an additional 1,170 speakers are counted as part of the diaspora community (Eberhard et al. 2021)
DATUM DER INFORMATION
2010
NUTZUNGSBEREICHE
ENTWICKLUNGSTENDENZEN BEI SPRECHERN
VERBREITUNG
MEHR ZU SPRACHBESTÄNDIGKEIT
Domains of use categorized as "Safe-Vulnerable", and a 0.5 on the LEI scale (p. 116)
SPRECHEREINSTELLUNG
Positive attitudes for both Kosraean and English, bilingualism seen as an additive (p. 46)
ANDERE VON DER GEMEINSCHAFT GESPROCHENE SPRACHEN
English
KOMMENTARE ZUM SPRACHKONTEXT
"Currently in Kosrae, what is unofficially prescribed as the language of instruction for kindergarten to second grade is 100% Kosraean, then from grades three to eight it switches to 10% Kosraean and 90% English, and at grade nine they switch to a completely English instructed curriculum" (p. 13)
Skripte (Schreibsysteme und Orthografien)
Latin
Rechtschreibung
High rate of literacy in Kosraean (90.7%) and English (90.1%) as of 2010 census (p. 1)
ORTE
Kosrae, Federated States of Micronesia
Informationen von: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
Bedroht
20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
8,570
8,000 in Micronesia (Johnstone and Mandryk 2001). Population total all countries: 8,570.
ORTE
Nauru; Micronesia;
Informationen von: “Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger” . Christopher Moseley (ed.) (2010) UNESCO Publishing
Bedroht
20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
6,900
Informationen von: “World Oral Literature Project” .
Bedroht
20 percent certain, based on the evidence available