Editing Nauruan language (section)

== Dialects ==
According to a report published in 1937 in [[Sydney]], [[Australia]], there was a diversity of dialects until Nauru became a colony of [[Germany]] in 1888 and the first texts in Nauruan began to be published. The varieties were so divergent that people from different [[Districts of Nauru|districts]] often had problems understanding each other completely. With the increasing influence of foreign languages and the rise in the number of Nauruan texts, the dialects blended into a standardized language, which was promoted through dictionaries and translations by [[Alois Kayser]] and [[Philip Delaporte]].

Today there is significantly less dialectal variation. In the district of [[Yaren District|Yaren]] and the surrounding area there is an eponymous dialect spoken, which is only slightly different from other varieties.