Palauan

PAU

provincial

Alternate Names: Belauan, Palau

Dialects: Little dialect variation.

Genealogy:

Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Palauan

Demographics: 14,800 in Palau (2000). Population total all countries: 18,950.

Language Use: Vigorous. Used as L2 by Sonsorol [sov], Tobian [tox].

Language Development: New media. Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1964.

Typology: SVO.

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Palau