Nauru
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Chinese Pidgin English
[cpi] Scattered. Users: Several thousand speakers, spoken by most in Nauru (Wurm 2007). Status: 6b* (Threatened). Alternate Names: China Coast Pidgin, Melanesian-Chinese Mixed Pidgin English. Classification: Pidgin, English based, Pacific.
English
[eng] Users: 10,020 in Nauru, all users. L1 users: 220 in Nauru (2019). L2 users: 9,800 (2019). Status: 3 (Wider communication). De facto national working language. Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, English.
Nauruan
[nau] Nauru Island. Users: 10,300, all users. L1 users: 9,300 (2013), decreasing. L2 users: 1,000. Status: 1 (National). De facto national language. Alternate Names: Nauru. Autonym: dorerin Naoero. Classification: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, Micronesian, Nauruan.