Nauruans
Sign in to saveNauruans are a nation and an ethnic group indigenous to the Pacific island country of Nauru. They are most likely a blend of Micronesian, Melanesian and Polynesian ancestry.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.image
- File:Nauruan-warrior-1880ers.jpg
- Ethnic group.caption
- Nauruan warrior, 1880
- Ethnic group.group
- Nauruans
- Ethnic group.population
- 15,000
- Ethnic group.pop1
- 11,000
- Ethnic group.pop2
- 800
- Ethnic group.pop3
- 135
- Ethnic group.languages
- Nauruan (native), English, Nauru Pidgin
- Ethnic group.religions
- Christianity, Shamanism, Animism
- Ethnic group.related
- Polynesians, Melanesians, and Micronesians
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human population
- Named after
- Nauru
- Citizenship
- Nauru
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Country
- Nauru
- Located in
- Nauru
- Country of origin
- Nauru
- Image
- People of Nauru 2019-03-25.jpg
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- People of Nauru
- topic's main category
- Category:Nauruan people
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Nauruans are a nation and an ethnic group indigenous to the Pacific island country of Nauru. They are most likely a blend of Micronesian, Melanesian and Polynesian ancestry.
The origin of the Nauruan people has not yet been finally determined. It was probably seafaring or shipwrecked Polynesians or Melanesians, who established themselves there because there was not already an indigenous population present, whereas the Micronesians were already crossed with the Melanesians in this area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nauruans” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.