Austral language
| Austral | |
|---|---|
| Native to | French Polynesia |
| Region | Austral Islands |
| Ethnicity | 8,000 (1987)[1] |
Native speakers |
3,000 (2007 census)[2] L2 speakers: 2,000 (no date)[3] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
aut |
| Glottolog |
aust1304[4] |
Austral (Reo Tuha’a pae) is a Polynesian language spoken by about 5,000 people on the Austral Islands of French Polynesia. It is being supplanted by Tahitian.
References
- Charpentier, Jean-Michel; François, Alexandre (2015). Atlas Linguistique de Polynésie Française — Linguistic Atlas of French Polynesia (in French and English). Mouton de Gruyter & Université de la Polynésie Française. ISBN 978-3-11-026035-9.
Notes
- ↑ Austral at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
- ↑ Austral at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Austral at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Austral". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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