Languages of Nauru
Republic of Nauru, Naoero. 10,000. National or official languages: Nauruan, English. One coral island. Literacy rate: 99%. Immigrant languages: Fijian (180), Kiribati (1,700), Kosraean, Marshallese, Tuvaluan (790), Yue Chinese (630). Information mainly from B. Bender and K. Rehg 1991. The number of individual languages listed for Nauru is 3. Of those, all are living languages.
| Chinese Pidgin English | [cpi]
Classification: Pidgin, English based, Pacific
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| English | [eng]
710 in Nauru (2000).
Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, English
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| Nauruan | [nau]
6,000 (Bender and Rehg 1991), decreasing. Nauru Island, Pleasant Island, isolated atoll west of Kiribati.
Classification: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, Micronesian, Nauruan
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