Official languages of the United Nations presence into Asia which is growing rapidly. Malay is also prominent on the internet as the Malay language has the sixth most Internet users of all languages. Many Lusophones have advocated for greater recognition of their language, being the sixth most spoken language in the world and spread across four continents: Portugal in Europe; Brazil (the largest lusophone nation) in South America; Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe in Africa; and in Asia, Timor-Leste and Macau. Portuguese is still spoken by a few thousand people in the former Portuguese colonies of Goa and Daman and Diu in
Taiap language Taiap language Taiap (or Tayap, also called Gapun, after the name of the village in which it is spoken) is an endangered language isolate spoken by around a hundred people in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. It is being replaced by the national language and lingua franca Tok Pisin. The first European to come across Taiap was a German missionary in 1938. The language was not studied by linguists until the 1970s because of the inaccessibility of the region. Taiap has a Pandanus language, spoken when harvesting karuka. Although Donald Laycock (1973) placed Taiap in his Sepik