ELP ID
29931
ELP Language
Rapa Nui
Speaker Number
1000-9999
Public Comment
Estimate is approximate. Although the ethnic population is around three thousand, Makihara observes that most children and teenagers are not fluent speakers of Rapa Nui. This is the result of the domination of Spanish on the Island.
Source
Linguistic purism in Rapa Nui political discourse
Preferred
On
Speaker Number Text
~2,000
Speaker Number Range
1000-9999