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Name:
Sonsorol
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Sonsorolese; Sonsorol-Tobi
Spoken in:
Northern Mariana Islands, Palau
Number of speakers:
600 in Palau (Wurm and Hattori 1981). Approximately 60 on the outer islands: Sonsoral 29, Pulo Anna 25, Merir 5. Outer islanders resident on main island of Palau unclear from the 1990 census
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
600
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
600
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
sov
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Austronesian
Parent Subgroup:
Trukic; Trukese-Woleaian (truk)
Child Dialects:
Pulo Anna (sov-pul)
Sonsorolese (sov-son)
UNESCO Status: Severely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Vulnerable
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Severely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Vulnerable
Map of Sonsorol
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