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Dokumentation Bedrohter Sprachen (DoBeS)
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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

100

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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Semi-speakers

1000

Child speakers

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Young 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

There are perhaps some 100 fluent first-language speakers, all older than 70, and perhaps another 1000 semi-speakers, all older than 50 (DoBES 2006)

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Other languages used

Spanish

Domains of other languages

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

950

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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More about speakers

Data for the number of native speakers comes from the 1990 census.

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Mexico;

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Native Speakers Worldwide

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2005

Location and Context

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Coordinates

16.0,-95.75

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

950

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Child speakers

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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. 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/
  3. 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/
  4. World Oral Literature Project
    "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.
    http://www.oralliterature.org
  5. The World Atlas of Language Structures
    2005. "The World Atlas of Language Structures." edited by Bernard Comrie et al. Oxford University Press.
  6. Motion, transfer, and transformation: The grammar of change in Lowland Chontal
    O'Connor, Loretta. Motion, Transfer, and Transformation: The Grammar of Change in Lowland Chontal. PhD thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004.
  7. Bosquejo gramatical preliminar del Chontal de la Baja, in Toj'me'me' lajltyaygi: Hablemos nuestra lengua
    O'Connor, Loretta. 2000. "Bosquejo Gramatical Preliminar Del Chontal De La Baja, in Toj'me'me' Lajltyaygi: Hablemos Nuestra Lengua." Oaxaca, Mexico: Instituto Nacional Indigenista.
  8. Chontal de la Sierra de Oaxaca
    Waterhouse, V. 1980. "Chontal De La Sierra De Oaxaca." D. F.: Centro de Investigación para la Integración Social, México.
  9. Another Look at Chontal and Hokan
    Waterhouse, V. G. 1976. "Another Look At Chontal and Hokan." In Hokan Studies: Papers from the first Conference of Hokan Languages held in San Diego, California April 23-25, 1970, edited by M. Langdon and S. Silver. 325-343. Mouton de Gruyter.
  10. The Grammatical Structure of Oaxaca Chontal
    Waterhouse, V. 1962. "The Grammatical Structure of Oaxaca Chontal." 19: Bloomington: Indiana university.
  11. The Grammatical Structure of Oaxaca Chontal
    Waterhouse, Viola. 1962. "The Grammatical Structure of Oaxaca Chontal." 19: Indiana University Press.
  12. Oaxaca Chontal: Sentence types and text analysis
    Waterhouse, Viola. 1949. "Oaxaca Chontal: Sentence Types and Text Analysis." In México Antiguo, 7: 229-314.
  13. Huamelultec Chontal
    Waterhouse, Viola. 1967. "Huamelultec Chontal." In Handbook of Middle American Indians, edited by Robert Wauchope. 349-367. University of Texas Press.