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5,250

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Language Information By Source

Languages of Vanuatu: A New Survey and Bibliography
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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

5,250

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers

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Semi-speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

There is almost no information available on North Ambrym. It has a relatively high number of speakers, but the linguistic situation remains unknown.

Year of info

2001

Location and Context

Countries

Vanuatu

Coordinates

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Location description

Northern Ambrym Island

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

Speakers’s attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

Northern Ambrym Island

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Other languages used

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Domains of other languages

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

~3,000

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Child speakers

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Ambrym Island, Vanuatu

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Location description

coastal and inland areas of northern Ambrym Island

Government support

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Speakers’s attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

coastal and inland areas of northern Ambrym Island

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Other languages used

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Speaker Number Trends

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Young adult speakers

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Ethnic Population

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More about speakers

Each major language varieties, Daakiye, Daakaka and Dal kalaen- has 1000 to 2000 speakers

Year of info

Location and Context

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Other writing systems

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Other languages used

Bislama, English, French

Domains of other languages

Education and media

More on context

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

5,250

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

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Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

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More about speakers

Data for the number of native speakers comes from Lynch and Crowley (2001).

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

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Coordinates

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Location description

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Government support

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Institutional support

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Speakers’s attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

No data

More on writing systems

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Other languages used

No data

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

No data

No data

Native Speakers Worldwide

No data

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

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Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2012

Location and Context

Countries

No data

Coordinates

-16.186489,168.137208

Location description

No data

Government support

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Institutional support

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Speakers’s attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

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Other languages used

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Domains of other languages

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More on context

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

5250

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2015

Location and Context

Countries

Vanuatu

Coordinates

-16.121601,168.161198;

Location description

Ambrym

Government support

No data

Institutional support

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Speakers’s attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

Ambrym

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  1. Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University
    2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
  2. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)
    Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)
    http://www.ethnologue.com/
  3. "A documentation of North Ambrym, a language of Vanuatu and research into its possessive structures" HRELP Abstract
    Franjieh, Mike. 2009. ""A Documentation of North Ambrym, a Language of Vanuatu and Research Into Its Possessive Structures" HRELP Abstract." Online: http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=191.
    http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=191
  4. Dokumentation Bedrohter Sprachen (DoBeS)
    Bedrohter Sprachen, Dokumentation. Dokumentation Bedrohter Sprachen (DoBeS). http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES/projects/ (October, 2011)
    http://lux09.mpi.nl:8186/DOBES/
  5. LL-MAP (Language and Location: A Map Accessibility Project)
    Anthony Aristar, Helen Aristar-Dry and Yichun Xie. 2012. "LL-MAP (Language and Location: A Map Accessibility Project)." Online: http://llmap.org.
    http://llmap.org
  6. Languages of Vanuatu: A New Survey and Bibliography
    Lynch, John and Terry Crowley. 2001. "Languages of Vanuatu: A New Survey and Bibliography." 517: Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.