Endangered Languages Project

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

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
3,000
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
3,000 (1995 SIL). 1,500 on Kapingamarangi and 1,500 in Porakiet village on Ponape.

	3rd	2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger		UNESCO Publishing	Paris	http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas	Christopher Moseley (ed.)	Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub	3,000		1000-9999		Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)		1.0828,154.8081
0199255911		2005	The World Atlas of Language Structures	Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer	Oxford University Press	New York			2005. "The World Atlas of Language Structures." edited by Bernard Comrie et al. Oxford University Press.								1.05,154.75
			World Oral Literature Project				http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.		3,000		1000-9999		Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
	16	2009	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)	M. Paul Lewis	SIL International	Dallas, TX	http://www.ethnologue.com/		Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)	ll_pub	3,000	1995	1000-9999	3,000 (1995 SIL). 1,500 on Kapingamarangi and 1,500 in Porakiet village on Ponape.	Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	Micronesia;

Kapingamarangi