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Language code: nau

Technical information about ISO 639 language code nau

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The table below provides technical details for the Nauru language, designated by the nau code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

nau

Name

Official

Nauru

Native

Dorerin Naoero

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Related languages
Gilbertese (Kiribati)MarshalleseChuukesePohnpeianKosraean
Key facts
Spoken by fewer than 10 000 people, making it one of the world’s smallest first-language communitiesIts first written form was created by German missionaries in the early 20th century, and the spelling was revised most recently in 2012Shows consonant mutations (especially of /m/, /n/ and /ŋ/) that mark grammatical relationsVocabulary contains many loans from English, German and Gilbertese due to long contactClassified by UNESCO as ‘vulnerable’, with younger speakers increasingly shifting to English.
Sample phrase

Ekamawir, kamawir om?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Nauru language, identified by the code nau, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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