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Native Speakers Worldwide

up to 340

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Anuta: Polynesian lifeways for the twenty-first century
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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

up to 340

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

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Ethnic Population

around 340

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

The population of Anuta has climbed considerably in the last few decades. Whether or not this accompanied by an expansion of the languages is unknown. The island is very small, .15 square miles, and cannot support continued population growth.

Year of info

2004

Location and Context

Countries

Solomon Islands

Coordinates

-11.611, 169.85

Location description

Anuta is a very small island, just a half mile at its widest point and .15 square miles in area. It is just over 80 miles northeast from Tikopia, the nearest inhabited island. Tikopia lies just over 630 miles to the southeast of the national capital, Honiara.

Government support

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Institutional support

There is an elementary school on the island with a Tikopian teacher and an Anutian assistant

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Standard orthography

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Other writing systems

Anuta is a very small island, just a half mile at its widest point and .15 square miles in area. It is just over 80 miles northeast from Tikopia, the nearest inhabited island. Tikopia lies just over 630 miles to the southeast of the national capital, Honiara.

More on writing systems

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Other languages used

Solomon Islands Pijin

Domains of other languages

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

270

Domains of Use

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Ethnic Population

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Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Anuta Island, Solomon Islands

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Year of info

2012

Location and Context

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Coordinates

-11.599272,169.826025

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

267

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  1. Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University
    2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
  2. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)
    Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)
    http://www.ethnologue.com/
  3. World Oral Literature Project
    "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.
    http://www.oralliterature.org
  4. LL-MAP (Language and Location: A Map Accessibility Project)
    Anthony Aristar, Helen Aristar-Dry and Yichun Xie. 2012. "LL-MAP (Language and Location: A Map Accessibility Project)." Online: http://llmap.org.
    http://llmap.org
  5. Anuta: Polynesian lifeways for the twenty-first century
    Richard Feinberg. 2004. "Anuta: Polynesian Lifeways For the Twenty-first Century." Long Grove: Waveland Press.