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Name:
Kosraean
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Kusaie; Kosrae; Kusaian
Spoken in:
Nauru, Micronesia
Number of speakers:
8,000 in Micronesia (Johnstone and Mandryk 2001). Population total all countries: 8,570
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
6900
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
8000
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
kos
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Austronesian
Parent Subgroup:
Kusaiean (kusa)
Child Dialects:
Lelu-Tafunsak (kos-lel)
Malen-Utwe (kos-mal)
UNESCO Status: Severely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Severely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Map of Kosraean
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