In brief
The largest documented number lives in Guam: 242 people in the 2010 census.
Official figures exist for 2 countries; together they add up to 439. This is not an estimate of the world total: the censuses were held in different years (2005-2010) and define belonging differently, and countries without such data are not counted.
Main language: Carolinian. Glottolog classifies it in the Austronesian family.
Where they live: census figures
Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.
Guam
242
Palau
197
Sum across 2 countries439
Languages and their lineage
Carolinian
- Austronesianaust1307
- Malayo-Polynesianmala1545
- Eastern Malayo-Polynesianeast2712
- Oceanicocea1241
- Micronesianmicr1243
- Central Micronesiancent2276
- Western Micronesianwest2844
- Chuukic-Ponapeicpona1247
- Trukictruk1243
- Nuclear Trukicnucl1749
- Central Trukiccent2290
- Satawalese-Caroliniansata1238
- Macro-Carolinianmacr1274
- Caroliniancaro1242
English
- Indo-Europeanindo1319
- Classical Indo-Europeanclas1257
- Germanicgerm1287
- Northwest Germanicnort3152
- West Germanicwest2793
- North Sea Germanicnort3175
- Anglo-Frisianangl1264
- Anglicangl1265
- Later Angliclate1254
- Middle-Modern Englishmerc1242
- Macro-Englishmacr1271
- Englishstan1293
Chamorro
- Austronesianaust1307
- Malayo-Polynesianmala1545
- Chamorrocham1312
People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.
Peoples of the same language family
Sources
- United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Guam, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
- United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Palau, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
- Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)