Austral language

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Austral
Spoken in: French Polynesia 
Region: Austral Islands
Total speakers: 8,000 (1987)
Language family: Austronesian
 Malayo-Polynesian(MP)
  Central-Eastern MP
   Eastern MP
    Oceanic
     Central-Eastern Oceanic
      Remote Oceanic
       Central Pacific
        East Fijian-Polynesian
         Polynesian
          Nuclear Polynesian
           Eastern Polynesian
            Central E. Polynesian
             Tahitic
              Austral
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: aut

Austral is a Polynesian language spoken by about 8000 people on the Austral Islands of French Polynesia. It is being supplanted by Tahitian.

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