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 Tanapag settlement of 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)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tanapag". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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