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"Documentation and description of Ngarinyin, a language of the Kimberley region of Western Australia" HRELP Abstract
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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

~12

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"Nowadays, however, only about a dozen of elderly speakers use it as their preferred language and Ngarinyin is no longer passed on to children."

Year of info

2011

Location and Context

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Kimberley Region, western Australia

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Location description

Northern central Kimberley Region

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Northern central Kimberley Region

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

90

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Year of info

2010

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Severely Endangered

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90

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

<82

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Year of info

2007

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Other languages used

Kriol

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"The number of speakers is lessening, with Kriol taking over."

Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

~80

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2007

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Severely Endangered

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82

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82 (Wurm and Hattori 1981)

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

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Australia;

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Year of info

2012

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-16.601517,125.536117

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