Nauruan

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

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Nauruan language 10
Nauruan canonical 8
Nauru language 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Micronesian language
Oceanic language
alternativeName Naoero language
Nauru language
linked to: Nauruan
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 Chinese
linked to: Mandarin Chinese

English
German
Gilbertese
linked to: Gilbertese language

Japanese
Kiribati
Marshallese
Pohnpeian
Samoan
Tongan
linked to: Tonga

Tuvaluan
linked to: Tuvalu
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 Nauruan people
linked to: Micronesians
usedFor education in Nauru
government in Nauru
media in Nauru
writingSystem Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (19)

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

Oceania hasOfficialLanguage Nauruan
Gilbertese language group closelyRelatedTo Nauruan language
linked to: Nauruan
Central–Eastern Oceanic languages includesLanguage Nauruan language
linked to: Nauruan
Nauru officialLanguage Nauruan
Nauru demonym Nauruan
Kiribati language closelyRelatedTo Nauruan language
linked to: Nauruan
Micronesians usesLanguage Nauruan language
linked to: Nauruan
Nauruan alternativeName Nauru language
linked to: Nauruan
Micronesian languages hasSubgroup Nauruan language
linked to: Nauruan
Micronesian languages hasLanguage Nauruan language
linked to: Nauruan
Dorerin Naoero endonymFor Nauruan language
linked to: Nauruan
Dorerin Naoero nativeNameOf Nauruan language
linked to: Nauruan
Dorerin Naoero hasExonym Nauruan
Naoero language alternateName Nauruan language
linked to: Nauruan
Kusaie closelyRelatedTo Nauruan language
linked to: Nauruan