 Specifically, it is broken down into Austronesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, Central Pacific, East Fijian-Polynesian, Polynesian, Nuclear, East, Central, and Tahitic.The Austral language is classified as "threatened" in the Catalogue of Endangered Languages.With less than 6% of the French Polynesian population speaking Austral, its Ethnologue status is also deemed to be "shifting".