Gilbertese language
Appearance
Gilbertese | |
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Kiribati | |
Taetae ni Kiribati | |
Native to | Kiribati |
Native speakers | (120,000 cited 1988–2010)[1] |
Latin script (Kiribati alphabet) | |
Official status | |
Official language in | Kiribati |
Regulated by | Kiribati Language Board |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-2 | gil |
ISO 639-3 | gil |
Glottolog | gilb1244 |
The Gilbertese language is an Austronesian language spoken mainly in Kiribati, but also in Fiji, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. Gilbertese is written in the latin script.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Gilbertese at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)