Tanapag language

Tanapag
Native to	Northern Mariana Islands
Region	Saipan
Native speakers	10 (2011)^[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Micronesian Nuclear Micronesian Trukic Tanapag
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`tpv`
Glottolog	`tana1281`^[2]

Tanapag is a nearly extinct Micronesian language of the Austronesian language family. It is spoken on the island of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands. Younger people speak Chamorro instead of Tanapag, but there are also efforts being made to promote the language.

References

↑ Tanapag at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tanapag". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Micronesian languages

Nuclear
Micronesian

Chuukic-Pohnpeic

Pohnpeic	Mokilese Ngatikese Pingelapese Pohnpeian

Chuukic	Carolinian Chuukese Mapia Mortlockese Namonuito Pááfang Puluwatese Satawalese Sonsorol Tanapag Tobian Ulithian Woleaian

Others

Non-Nuclear

Nauruan

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