Nauruan

A language of Nauru

Nauru

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10,300, all users. L1 users: 9,300 (2013), decreasing. L2 users: 1,000.

Nauru Island.

1 (National). De facto national language.

Some young people, all adults. Children not learning it anymore (Wurm 2007). Most also use English [eng].

School attendance required from age 6 to 17. Literacy is high. Grammar. Bible: 1918.

Latin script [Latn].

Christian.