Lokono

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"Both the number of ethnic Lokono (i.e., the total ethnic population), and the percentage of Lokono speakers in the three Guianas are hard to estimate... Based on long-term fieldwork and collaboration with Lokono organizations from the three Guianas since 2009, I conclude that the figures today are much lower [than the previously estimated speaker count of ~2,000]. The percentage of fluent speakers, that is, speakers who have an active knowledge of many linguistic domains, is around 5% of the ethnic population. There is a sizeable community of semispeakers possessing different degrees of passive knowledge, but very few people can actually speak Lokono."

2015

French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana

5.455394, -55.187788; 4.914673, -52.301360; 7.511970, -59.335657

"Geographically, the Lokono people live in the pericoastal villages (indicated in red [on map in article]) as well as in the three capital cities of the Guianas: Cayenne, Paramaribo and Georgetown. According to an unpublished report by the Summer Institute of Linguistics (2002), there is also a small Lokono community in Venezuela, not far from the Guyanese border. Finally, there is also a sizable community of Lokono people living in the Netherlands who emigrated from Suriname in the last few decades for economic, educational, and political reasons. Patte (2014) also mentions an expatriate Lokono community in Great Britain."

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"In the settlements themselves in all three countries, there is support for language revitalization, especially among the adult ethnic Lokono who do not speak the language anymore (including the expatriates in the Netherlands). However, not many Lokono actively participate in the attempts at revitalizing the language. The Lokono are not ashamed anymore of speaking their language publicly, although this hardly ever happens due to the limited number of fluent speakers."

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"Geographically, the Lokono people live in the pericoastal villages (indicated in red [on map in article]) as well as in the three capital cities of the Guianas: Cayenne, Paramaribo and Georgetown. According to an unpublished report by the Summer Institute of Linguistics (2002), there is also a small Lokono community in Venezuela, not far from the Guyanese border. Finally, there is also a sizable community of Lokono people living in the Netherlands who emigrated from Suriname in the last few decades for economic, educational, and political reasons. Patte (2014) also mentions an expatriate Lokono community in Great Britain."

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"Amerindian languages in Suriname do not have an official status. Lokono, together with other Amerindian languages, is recognized as a regional language in Guyana. In French Guiana, Lokono, together with other Amerindian and Maroon languages, at least theoretically, has the status of a regional language of France. Despite clear differences between the three countries, in none of them is there an actual implemented language policy aimed at sustaining and developing the Lokono language."