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Native Speakers Worldwide

2,350

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Language Information By Source

Australia and the Pacific
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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

2,350

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

No data

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

2700

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Indonesia: Sulawesi Province

Coordinates

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Location description

Sulawesi, on the south coast of the northeastern peninsula of Sulawesi, in its extreme western part where it joins the narrow neck which links the peninsula to the bulk of Sulawesi, in a single village with about 2,700 inha- bitants, near Borneo.

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

Sulawesi, on the south coast of the northeastern peninsula of Sulawesi, in its extreme western part where it joins the narrow neck which links the peninsula to the bulk of Sulawesi, in a single village with about 2,700 inha- bitants, near Borneo.

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Indonesian

Domains of other languages

Education

More on context

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

2,700

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

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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 Himmelmann (2001).

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Indonesia;

Coordinates

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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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More on context

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

2700

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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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

Most of the community speaks Indonesian, the national language. Many also speak Kaila, a regional lingua franca.

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2001

Location and Context

Countries

Indonesia

Coordinates

0.44, 120.954

Location description

Spoken on Sulawesi, in and around Bolano.

Government support

No government support.

Institutional support

No institutional support

Speakers' attitudes

Generally negative.

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

Spoken on Sulawesi, in and around Bolano.

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Indonesian, Kaili

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

No data

Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

2,700

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

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Ethnic Population

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