Austral language

Austral (Reo Tuha’a pae) is a Polynesian language spoken by about 5,000 people on the Austral Islands of
French Polynesia. It is being supplanted by Tahitian.
Austral
Native to French Polynesia
Region Austral Islands
References Ethnicity 8,000 (1987)[1]
Charpentier, Jean-Michel; François, Alexandre (2015). Atlas Linguistique de Polynésie Française — Native 3,000 (2007 census)[1]
Linguistic Atlas of French Polynesia (http://alex.francois.free.fr/AF-Atlas-blurbs_e.htm) (in French and speakers L2 speakers: 2,000 (no
English). Mouton de Gruyter & Université de la Polynésie Française. ISBN 978-3-11-026035-9.
date)[2]
Language Austronesian
Notes family
Malayo-Polynesian
1. Austral (https://www.ethnologue.com/19/language/aut/) at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016) Oceanic
2. Austral (https://www.ethnologue.com/17/language/aut/) at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
Polynesian
3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Austral" (http://glottolog.org/r
esource/languoid/id/aust1304). Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Eastern
Polynesian
Human History.
Tahitic
The Austronesian languagesAustral
are a language
family that is widely dispersed throughout
Maritime Southeast Language codes and the
Asia, Madagascar
ISOPacific
islands of the 639-3Ocean,
aut with a few members

in continental Asia. Austronesian

Glottolog languages are
aust1304 (http://glott
spoken by about 386 olog.org/resource/lang
million people (4.9%),
making it the fourth-largest [3] by
language family
uoid/id/aust1304)

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