Also Known As:
Easter Island, Pascuense, Rapanui, Öster-Insel Sprache
Dialects & Varieties
Recent Resources
One of the most popular band on Easter Island
Seconds of spoken rapanui
Threatened
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~2,000
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speaker Number Trends
Speaker Number Trend 2
A majority of community members speak the language. Speaker numbers are gradually decreasing.
2
Transmission
Transmission 2
Most adults in the community are speakers, but children generally are not.
2
Bibliography
Bibliography of Vitality:
Linguistic purism in Rapa Nui political discourse
Bibliography of Locations:
2005. "The World Atlas of Language Structures." edited by Bernard Comrie et al. Oxford University Press.
Bibliography of Context:
Linguistic purism in Rapa Nui political discourse