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Nauruan
Dorerin Naoe, Ekaiairũ Naoero
Native to
Nauru
Ethnicity
Nauruans
Native speakers
9,356 (2013)[1]
Language family
Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Oceanic
Micronesian
Nauruan
Writing system
Latin
Official status
Official language in
Nauru
Language codes
ISO 639-1
na
ISO 639-2
nau
ISO 639-3
nau
Glottolog
naur1243
ELP
Nauruan
IETF
na-NR
Map showing the distribution of the Micronesian languages; Nauruan-speaking region is shaded purple.
Nauruan is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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A Nauruan speaker, recorded in Taiwan.
Nauruan[2] or Nauru[3][4][5] (Nauruan: dorerin Naoero) is an Austronesian language, spoken natively in the island country of Nauru. Its relationship to the other Micronesian languages is not well understood.
^Nauruan at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
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the world's highest rate of obesity. Like its other island neighbours, Nauruans consume a large amount of seafood, as well as foods made from coconuts...
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has a population of 1,874, making it the most populous of the fourteen Nauruan districts.[clarification needed] In this district is the laborers' settlement...
this is not the case as it has no basis in Philippine law. In the Nauruanlanguage, it is referred to as ibiya. Milkfish is also called bandeng or bolu...
related Loyalty Islands languages. According to Jackson (1983, 1986) the languages group as follows: Micronesian family Nauruan Nuclear Micronesian family...
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Hamburger Südsee-Expedition 1908–1910. The village names were changed following the orthographic reform of the Nauruanlanguage of 1939. Geography of Nauru...
composition activity. The patriotic song "Eko Dogin" (Forevermore in the Nauruanlanguage), is sung by Rina Appi and Martin Detenamo "National anthem – The World...
Nauru First (Nauruan: Naoero Amo) is the only formal political party in Nauru. Its positions tend to be liberal, pro-government transparency, and Christian...
who spent almost forty years on Nauru and wrote a Nauruan grammar (and possibly a Nauruanlanguage dictionary). In 1943, he was deported along with Pierre...
arrive. The custom of fishing by trained frigatebirds has been preserved. Nauruan folk songs existed as of 1970, while Oh Bwio Eben Bwio is a noticeable...
by the United Nations as the "main district". English and Nauruan, the official languages of Nauru, are spoken in the district. The following government...
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dependencies along with their capital cities, in English and non-English official language(s). In bold: internationally recognized sovereign states The 193 member...
refugee camp on Nauru soil. He lost his parliamentary seat in the 2019 Nauruan parliamentary election, meaning he could not be re-elected. In August 2019...
2022. [we] can further define the word culture to mean language. Thus we have the French language part of Oceania, the Spanish part and the Japanese part...
school, a language which many Nauruans learned during the war, and hired native dancers for celebrations they organized, which brought the Nauruans extra...
000 years ago, and there is evidence of possible Polynesian influence. Nauruans subsisted on coconut and pandanus fruit, and engaged in aquaculture by...
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