Status Notes: De facto national working language.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 6,000 (Bender and Rehg 1991), decreasing. L2 users: 1,000.
Language Use: Children not learning it anymore (Wurm 2007). Mainly adults. Almost all are bilingual in English [eng]. Used as L2 by Kiribati [gil], Kosraean [kos], Marshallese [mah], Tuvaluan [tvl].
Language Development: School attendance required from age 6 to 17. Literacy is high. Bible: 1918.
Spoken In: Nauru
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Nauru
Other Comments: Christian.