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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Pacific > Fiji > Rotuman

Rotuman

A language of Fiji

ISO 639-3rtm

Population  9,000 (1991 UBS). 2,500 on Rotuma, 300 overseas (1990 J. Vamarasi).
Region  Rotuma Island.
Language map  Fiji
Alternate names   Rotuna, Rutuman
Classification  Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, Central Pacific, West Fijian-Rotuman, Rotuman
Language development  Dictionary. Grammar. Bible: 1999.
Writing system  Latin script.
Comments  Agriculturalists; fishermen; copra production.