Rapa Nui
[aka Easter Island, Pascuense, Rapanui]Classification: Austronesian
·threatened
Classification: Austronesian
·threatened
Easter Island, Pascuense, Rapanui, Öster-Insel Sprache |
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Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Polynesian |
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Information from: “Linguistic purism in Rapa Nui political discourse” (49-69) . Miki Makihara (2007) , Miki Makihara, Bambi Schieffelin · Oxford: Oxford University Press
Estimate is approximate. Although the ethnic population is around three thousand, Makihara observes that most children and teenagers are not fluent speakers of Rapa Nui. This is the result of the domination of Spanish on the Island.
A pure form or Rapa Nui, which does not use Spanish loans, is popular in local political discourse, but the Rapa nui spoken by most speakers has heavy Spanish influence.
Spanish
Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press
Information from: “Australia and the Pacific” (424-557) . Stephen A Wurm (2007) Routledge
Members of the young generation are losing interest in the language.
Spanish
25-50%% literacy
Information from: “Diccionario y gramatica de la lengua de la Isla de Pascua: pascuense-castellano, castellano-pascuense” . Fuentes, Jordi (1960) Editorial Andres Bello
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
3,500
3,390 in Chile (2000). 2,200 on Easter Island; 200 to 300 on Chile mainland, Tahiti, and USA. Ethnic population: 3,500.
2,400 in Chile (Wurm 2007). Population total all countries: 2,700 (2013).