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A Grammar of Abui: A Papuan Language of Alor
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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

16,000

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

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Indonesia

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Location description

Alor island

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Alor island

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Malay

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Abui is banned in schools. Here, the language of instruction is strictly Malay.

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Native Speakers Worldwide

16,000

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Year of info

2004

Location and Context

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Alor island, southeastern Indonesia

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Location description

central Alor

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central Alor

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Other languages used

local variety of Malay

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Native Speakers Worldwide

16,000

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Ethnic Population

16,000

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(Wurm and Hattori 1981)

Year of info

2009

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2005

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-8.25,124.666666667

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  1. "Documentation of 3-4 Endangered Non-Austronesian Languages of Alor and Pantar, Eastern Indonesia" HRELP Abstract
    Baird, Louise. 2004. ""Documentation of 3-4 Endangered Non-Austronesian Languages of Alor and Pantar, Eastern Indonesia" HRELP Abstract." Online: http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=43.
    http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=43
  2. A Grammar of Abui: A Papuan Language of Alor
    Kratochvíl, František. A Grammar of Abui: A Papuan Language of Alor. PhD thesis, Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, 2007.
  3. Annotations to a text in the Abui language (Alor)
    Stokhof, W. 1984. "Annotations To a Text in the Abui Language (Alor)." In Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 140 , no. 1: 106-162.