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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)

Endangerment Status


UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered
Ethnologue Status: Not listed
Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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