Nukuoro language
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Nukuoro | ||
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Spoken in: | Micronesia | |
Region: | Western Nukuoro Island | |
Total speakers: | First language: about 860 | |
Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Eastern Central-Eastern Oceanic Nuclear Polynesian Samoic Nukuoro |
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Official status | ||
Official language of: | - | |
Regulated by: | no official regulation | |
Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | - | |
ISO 639-2: | nkr | |
ISO 639-3: | nkr | |
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. |
Nukuoro is a language belonging to the Malayo-Polynesian languages, spoken by about 860 people on the Nukuoro Island and on Pohnpei in Micronesia. It is extremely similar to Kapingamarangi language.