Kapingamarangi is spoken on the remote coral atoll of the same name in the Federated States of Micronesia, and by a settled community at Porakied village on the island of Pohnpei. Although the atoll lies within Micronesia, the language is Polynesian: Kapingamarangi is one of the so-called Polynesian outliers, descended from the speech of voyagers who settled far to the west of the main Polynesian triangle. Its closest relative is Nukuoro, spoken on a neighbouring atoll. The speaker population is small, numbering a few thousand at most, and English serves as the official language of the wider country. Kapingamarangi is written in the Latin alphabet, and Bible translation work has helped shape its written form. Everyday life on the atoll still runs largely in the language.
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