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El añú o paraujano, una lengua arahuaca moribunda
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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

1

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Ethnic Population

20,000

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Aunque actualmente existen 20.000 persons de esta etnia, el añú ha cesado la transmission inter-generacional y, al paraecer, solo la recuerdan contadísimas personas de edad muy avanzada y es de presumir que, incluso estas personas, conozcan la lengua de modo muy fragmentario. La única excepción parece ser Jofris Márquez … que la aprendió de su finada abuela. (p.130.) [Although there are currently 20,000 persons of this ethnic group, Añú has ceased inter-generational transmission and, it seems, only a few persons people of advanced age remember it and it is to be presumed that even these people know the language very fragmentarily. The only exception appears to be Jofris Marquez ... who learned it from his late grandmother. (p.130.)]

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

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Venezuela

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Spanish

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

20

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Year of info

2010

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11.022,-71.7352

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Dormant

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No known speakers.

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Ethnic Population

4,306

Non-monolingual speakers

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Data for the number of native speakers comes from Gaceta Indigenista (1975).

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

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Venezuela;

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Location description

Zulia State, Lake Maracaibo, near Guajiro.

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Zulia State, Lake Maracaibo, near Guajiro.

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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

20

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Ethnic Population

17,400

Non-monolingual speakers

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Nearly extinct.

Year of info

2016

Location and Context

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Venezuela

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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

20

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Ethnic Population

11,205

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Moribund with only approximately 20 speakers left, most of whom speak Spanish and Guajiro as well.

Year of info

2012

Location and Context

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Venezuela

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Other languages used

Spanish, Guajiro

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Moribund with only approximately 20 speakers left, most of whom speak Spanish and Guajiro as well.

Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

20-30

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Ethnic Population

17,440

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

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Venezuela, Zulia State, between Maracaibo and the La Guajira Peninsula

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