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Countries of the Pacifics

Country	Official and national Languages	Other spoken Languages
American Samoa	English	Samoan (closely related to Hawaiian and other Polynesian languages), note: most people are bilingual
Australia	English	native languages
Cook Islands	English	Maori
Fiji	English	Fijian, Hindustani
French Polynesia	French	Tahitian
Guam	English	Chamorro, Japanese
Kiribati	English	I-Kiribati
Marshall Islands	English, Marshallese, (two major Marshallese dialects from the Malayo-Polynesian family)	Japanese
Micronesia (Federated States of)	English	Trukese, Pohnpeian, Yapese, Kosrean, Ulithian, Woleaian, Nukuoro, Kapingamarangi
Nauru	Nauruan (a distinct Pacific Island language), English	English is widely understood, spoken, and used for most government and commercial purposes.
New Caledonia	French	33 Melanesian-Polynesian dialects.
New Zealand	English, Maori
Niue	English	Niuean (a Polynesian language closely related to Tongan and Samoan).
Northern Mariana Islands	English	Chamorro, Carolinian; note: 86% of population speaks a language other than English at home.
Palau	English and Palauan official in all states except Sonsoral (Sonsoralese and English are official), Tobi (Tobi and English are official), and Angaur (Angaur, Japanese, and English are official)
Papua New Guinea	Hiri Motu (in Papua region), Tok Pisin, English (spoken by 1%-2%)	Melanesian Pidgin serves as the lingua franca, 823! living indigenous languages.
Pitcairn	English	Pitcairnese (mixture of an 18th century English dialect and a Tahitian dialect)
Samoa	Samoan (Polynesian), English
Solomon Islands	English is official but spoken by only 1%-2% of the population	Melanesian pidgin is lingua franca in much of the country; note: 120 indigenous languages
Tonga	Tongan, English
Tuvalu	English	Tuvaluan, Samoan, I-Kiribati (on the island of Nui)
Vanuatu	English, French, Bislama (Bichelama)	plus more than 100 local languages.
Sources: Ethnologue, ISO Country Names (ISO 3166-1), ISO Languages Names (ISO 639-1), CIA World Factbook and others.

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