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Native Speakers Worldwide

~13000

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Sourcebook on Tomini-Tolitoi Languages: General Information and Word Lists
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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

~13000

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

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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

Almost all speak Indonesian. Most also Speak Kaili, a lingua franca. Some might also speak Bajau

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2001

Location and Context

Countries

Indonesia

Coordinates

0.777, 120.529; 1.243, 121.09;

Location description

Sulawesi

Government support

No government support.

Institutional support

No institutional support

Speakers’s attitudes

Generally negative.

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

Sulawesi

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Indonesian, Kaili, Bajau

Domains of other languages

Schooling is in Indonesian.

More on context

No data

Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

13,000

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

Children

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Indonesia: Sulawesi Province

Coordinates

No data

Location description

Spoken by both a west coastal and a middle hill population of a total of about 13,000 (reported in 1991 as 15,000 or fewer) in the extreme western part of the northeastern peninsula of Sulawesi, where it joins the narrow neck which links it to the bulk of Sulawesi. Today the middle hill people all live in resettlement projects and small hamlets near the coast.

Government support

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Institutional support

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

Spoken by both a west coastal and a middle hill population of a total of about 13,000 (reported in 1991 as 15,000 or fewer) in the extreme western part of the northeastern peninsula of Sulawesi, where it joins the narrow neck which links it to the bulk of Sulawesi. Today the middle hill people all live in resettlement projects and small hamlets near the coast.

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Indonesan

Domains of other languages

Education

More on context

No data

Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

13,000

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

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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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Standard orthography

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Other languages used

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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

13,000

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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