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A Nauruan language (dorerin Naoero) is an Austronesian language spoken in Nauru. These are approximated that it has 7,000 speakers, some 50% of the people. About tons speakers come bilingual within English.

These are the member of the Micronesian family of Austronesian languages. Its ISO 639 codes are 'na' & 'nau'.

Delaporte's Nauruan Dictionary
Inside 1907, Philip Delaporte published his pocket German-Nauruan dictionary ([http://www.trussel.com/kir/naudel.htm Taschenwörterbuch Deutsch-Nauruisch]). A lexicon is microscopic (X.Cinque ten Fourteen cm), by using 65 web sites devoted to the gloss & even more, an extra twelve to phrases, intended alphabetically per German. Just about 1650 German words come glossed around Nauruan, typically by phrases or even synonymous forms. There are a few 1300 'unique' Nauruan forms within the glosses, including 100% victims occurring in phrases, & ignoring diacritical marks. A accents utilized there are non park; good a single accent (a tilde) is in utilise now.

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Nauruan Swadesh List
Yale University list of English vocabulary and kinship words with the Nauruan language translation.

Petit-Skinner's Nauruan English
List of Nauruan language vocabulary with English translations from context.

Delaporte's Nauruan Dictionary
2,500 English-Nauruan-German entries of words and character distribution chart.
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