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{{Short description|Austronesian language spoken in Nauru}} {{Distinguish|Na language}} {{Redirect|Nauru language|other languages spoken in Nauru|Languages of Nauru}} {{More citations needed|date=December 2007}} {{Infobox language | name = Nauruan | nativename = Dorerin Naoe, Ekaiairũ Naoero | states = [[Nauru]] | ethnicity = [[Nauruans]] | speakers = 9,356<!--Ethn. gives an undated estimate of 1,000 L2 speakers from 1992 ({{e14|NRU}}), which was the difference of two population estimates. The difference may have been immigrants in the mining industry, but in 2006 1,500 expats were repatriated, presumably removing most of the L2 speakers--> | date = 2013 | ref = e25 | familycolor = Austronesian | fam2 = [[Malayo-Polynesian languages|Malayo-Polynesian]] | fam3 = [[Oceanic languages|Oceanic]] | fam4 = [[Micronesian languages|Micronesian]] | script = [[Latin alphabet|Latin]] | nation = {{flagdeco|Nauru}} [[Nauru]] | iso1 = na | iso2 = nau | iso3 = nau | glotto = naur1243 | glottorefname = Nauru | notice = IPA | ietf = na-NR | map = Micronesian languages.en.svg | mapcaption = Map showing the distribution of the [[Micronesian languages]]; Nauruan-speaking region is shaded purple. }} [[File:WIKITONGUES- Siro speaking Nauruan.webm|thumb|A Nauruan speaker, recorded in [[Taiwan]].]] '''Nauruan'''<ref>[https://www.ethnologue.com/18/language/nau/ Nauruan] at ''[[Ethnologue]]'' (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)</ref> or '''Nauru'''<ref name="Glottolog4.3">{{cite web| editor-last1= Hammarström| editor-first1 = Harald| editor-last2 = Forke| editor-first2 = Robert| editor-last3 = Haspelmath| editor-first3 = Martin| editor-last4 = Bank| editor-first4 = Sebastian| year = 2020|title = Nauru| work = [[Glottolog]] 4.3| url = https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/naur1243}}</ref><ref name="ISO 639-2/RA">{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/langcodes_name.php?code_ID=316 |title=Documentation for ISO 639 identifier: nau |publisher=ISO 639-2 Registration Authority - Library of Congress |access-date=2017-07-04 |quote=Name: Nauru}}</ref><ref name="ISO 639-3/RA">{{cite web |url=http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=nau |title=Documentation for ISO 639 identifier: nau |publisher=ISO 639-3 Registration Authority - SIL International |access-date=2017-07-04 |quote=Name: Nauru}}</ref> ({{Langx|na|dorerin Naoero|link=no}}) is an [[Austronesian languages|Austronesian language]], spoken natively in the [[island country]] of [[Nauru]]. Its relationship to the other Micronesian languages is not well understood. The Nauruan language is one of the languages that does not exist yet in [[Google Translate]].
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