Nauruan

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Nauruan is an Austronesian language spoken primarily on the Pacific island nation of Nauru.

Aliases (2)

Statements (49)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Micronesian language
Oceanic language
alternativeName Naoero language
Nauruan
surface form: "Nauru language"
belongsToSubgroup Central Pacific languages
continent Oceania
coOfficialWith English
country Nauru
endangermentStatus vulnerable
hasDialects multiple regional varieties
hasHistoricalInfluenceFrom Australian administration of Nauru
German colonial period in Nauru
hasLoanwordsFrom Mandarin Chinese
surface form: "Chinese"

English
German
Gilbertese language
surface form: "Gilbertese"

Japanese
Kiribati
Marshallese
Chuukic–Pohnpeic languages
surface form: "Pohnpeian"

Samoan
Tonga
surface form: "Tongan"

Tuvalu
surface form: "Tuvaluan"
hasOfficialStatusIn Nauru
hasPhonologicalFeature rich consonant inventory
vowel length contrast
hasRegulatingBody Government of Nauru
ISO639-1Code na
ISO639-2Code nau
ISO639-3Code nau
languageCodeStandard ISO 639
languageFamily Austronesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian languages
linguisticTypology SVO word order
agglutinative language
nativeName Dorerin Naoero
numberOfSpeakersEstimate 6000
primaryCountry Nauru
region Micronesia
Pacific Ocean
spokenIn Nauru
status national language of Nauru
official language of Nauru
usedByEthnicGroup Micronesians
surface form: "Nauruan people"
usedFor education in Nauru
government in Nauru
media in Nauru
writingSystem Latin script

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Nauruan alternativeName Nauruan
this entity surface form: "Nauru language"
this entity surface form: "Nauruan language"
this entity surface form: "Nauruan language"
Nauru demonym Nauruan
Oceania hasOfficialLanguage Nauruan
this entity surface form: "Nauruan language"
Nauru officialLanguage Nauruan
Micronesians usesLanguage Nauruan
this entity surface form: "Nauruan language"

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