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Native Speakers Worldwide

32

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A Grammar of Mavea: An Oceanic Language of Vanuatu
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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

32

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

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

210

Non-monolingual speakers

Most of the community speaks Bislama

More about speakers

"Most of the grammatical descriptions derive from a corpus of texts of various genres (conversations, traditional stories, personal histories, etc.) gathered during the author’s fieldwork, conducted for eleven months between 2005 and 2007."

Year of info

2011

Location and Context

Countries

Vanuatu

Coordinates

-15.384, 167.230

Location description

Mavea Island

Government support

No government support

Institutional support

No institutional support

Speakers' attitudes

Apathetic with regard to language loss

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

Mavea Island

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Bislama

Domains of other languages

Most domains

More on context

There are no schools where Mavea is the the language of instruction.

Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

70

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

Countries

No data

Coordinates

-15.4219,167.2366

Location description

No data

Government support

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Speakers' 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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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

70

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

10

Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

No data

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

Mean age of children is 8.

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Espiritu Santo Island, Vanuatu

Coordinates

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Location description

East Espiritu Santo Island, on Mafea and Ais Islands off the southeastern coast of Santo Island

Government support

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Institutional support

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Speakers' attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

East Espiritu Santo Island, on Mafea and Ais Islands off the southeastern coast of Santo Island

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

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Domains of other languages

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More on context

pressure from the closely related larger Shark Bay language

Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

200

Domains of Use

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2005

Location and Context

Countries

Mafea Island, Vanuatu

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Location description

northern Vanuatu

Government support

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Institutional support

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Speakers' attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

northern Vanuatu

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Other languages used

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Domains of other languages

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

250

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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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

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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

Countries

Vanuatu;

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Location description

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Government support

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Institutional support

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Speakers' 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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More on writing systems

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Other languages used

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Domains of other languages

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No data

Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

34

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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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

2014

Location and Context

Countries

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Location description

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Government support

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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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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

34

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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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

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More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2015

Location and Context

Countries

Vanuatu

Coordinates

-15.383995,167.229435; -15.431657,167.252781;

Location description

Espiritu Santo, Mavea

Government support

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Institutional support

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

Espiritu Santo, Mavea

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Domains of other languages

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

50

Domains of Use

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