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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

106

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Personal Communication on Papapana
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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

106

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

55

Semi-speakers

136

Child speakers

2

Young adult speakers

26

Older adult speakers

64

Elder Speakers

13

Ethnic Population

510

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

In 2013: 106 L1 (first-language) or fluent speakers; 55 L2 (second-language) or 'semi' speakers; 136 people who had some passive understanding of Papapana. Of the L2 speakers, 8 are children under 20, 46 are young adults between 20 and 40, and 1 is an older adult in their 40s. Of the passive speakers, 55 are children under 20, 78 are young adults 20-40, and 1 is an older adult in their 60s.

Year of info

2014

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Tok Pisin

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"[Papapana is used] around the villages among Papapana speakers, or between Papapana speakers if they are out and about. In church very occasionally there are songs in Papapana. At school in year 1 only, Papapana is taught like a L2 (second language) for an hour a day. Sometimes also used for numbers and objects in maths or science classes in year 1."

Endangered

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150

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Year of info

2010

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-5.8974,155.2505

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Native Speakers Worldwide

150

Domains of Use

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

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Papua New Guinea

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Location description

North Solomons Province. Spoken on the northern part of the east coast of Bougainville Island.

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North Solomons Province. Spoken on the northern part of the east coast of Bougainville Island.

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

120

Domains of Use

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Bougainville, Papua New Guinea

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Native Speakers Worldwide

120

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Ethnic Population

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Data for the number of native speakers comes from S. Wurm (2000).

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

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Papua New Guinea;

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120

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