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Name:
Mortlockese
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Mortlock; Nomoi
Spoken in:
Micronesia
Number of speakers:
5,900 (1989 census). 1,692 Upper Mortlock, 1,757 Mid Mortlock, 2,455 Lower Mortlock, about 1,000 elsewhere
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
5904
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
5904
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
mrl
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Austronesian
Parent Subgroup:
Trukic; Trukese-Woleaian (truk)
Child Dialects:
Upper Mortlock (mrl-upp)
Mid Mortlock (mrl-mid)
Lower Mortlock (mrl-low)
UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Map of Mortlockese
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