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Name:
Rapa Nui
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Easter Island; Pascuense; Rapanui; Oster-Insel Sprache; Easter
Spoken in:
USA, Chile, French Polynesia
Number of speakers:
3,390 in Chile (2000). 2,200 on Easter Island; 200 to 300 on Chile mainland, Tahiti, and USA. Ethnic population: 3,500
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
2500
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
3392
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
rap
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Austronesian
Parent Subgroup:
Rapanui (rapa)
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 Rapa Nui
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