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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

<20,000

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Language Information By Source

Some Endangered Languages of Ghana
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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

<20,000

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

No data

Young adult speakers

No data

Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

No data

Non-monolingual speakers

Almost all

More about speakers

"The 1990 Ghana Census figures estimate that there are approximately 100,000 speakers of the combined dialects of Awutu-Effutu... [however] the languages that are most affected [by language endangerment] are those with less than 20,000 speakers... these include Ewutu-Effutu in the Central Region."

Year of info

2012

Location and Context

Countries

Ghana

Coordinates

5.346992, -0.627230

Location description

"Winneba is a small fishing town of Effutu-Awutu speakers in the Central Region of Ghana. The town, which is almost surrounded by Fante speaking towns, is currently the home of a major national university. During each school semester, the number of non-natives outnumbers the indigenes."

Government support

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Institutional support

No data

Speakers’s attitudes

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Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

None

Other writing systems

"Winneba is a small fishing town of Effutu-Awutu speakers in the Central Region of Ghana. The town, which is almost surrounded by Fante speaking towns, is currently the home of a major national university. During each school semester, the number of non-natives outnumbers the indigenes."

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Fante

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

96.4% of Winneba residents speak at least two languages; 93.6% of Winneba residents speak both Effutu and Fante.

Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

20,000-30,000

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

No data

Young adult speakers

No data

Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

No data

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2010

Location and Context

Countries

Ghana

Coordinates

5.343437, -0.621786

Location description

"Winneba, a coastal town in the Central Region of Ghana, and surrounding villages"

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

Speakers’s attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

"Winneba, a coastal town in the Central Region of Ghana, and surrounding villages"

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

No data

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

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Media Resources

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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. "Documentation of Effutu" HRELP Abstract
    Agyeman, Nana. 2010. ""Documentation of Effutu" HRELP Abstract." Online: http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=207.
    http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=207