| Banaban | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Kiribati |
| Region | Banaba |
| Extinct | after 1890s |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
 Astronaut photo of Banaba | |
Banaban was a little-attested extinct Micronesian language previously spoken on the island of Banaba.
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Banaban was spoken by the Banaban people prior to the arrival of Captain Walkup of the American Mission Society in the 1890s. His attempts to promote Kiribati as opposed to Banaban because there existed a Kiribati translation of the Bible resulted in Banaban being replaced by Kiribati on the island. [1] [2] The Banaban people now speak a dialect of Kiribati with some words from the original Banaban language, according to Ethnologue. [3]
It was mutually unintelligible with Kiribati.