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Native Speakers Worldwide

1,500

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Longgu Grammar
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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

1,500

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

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Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

Other estimates put the number of speakers at 750. Hill estimates double that number.

Year of info

2011

Location and Context

Countries

Solomon Islands

Coordinates

-9.684, 160.656

Location description

North east coast of Guadalcanal, around Kaoka Bay. Spoken in the village of Komungelea to the north and Matango to the south.

Government support

No government support

Institutional support

No data

Speakers’s attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

North east coast of Guadalcanal, around Kaoka Bay. Spoken in the village of Komungelea to the north and Matango to the south.

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Solomon Islands Pijin

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

No data

Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

1,890

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

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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 SIL (1999).

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

No data

Coordinates

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Location description

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Government support

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Institutional support

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Speakers’s attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

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More on writing systems

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Other languages used

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Domains of other languages

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More on context

No data

Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

1,890

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

2012

Location and Context

Countries

Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands

Coordinates

No data

Location description

No data

Government support

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Institutional support

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Speakers’s attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

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Other languages used

No data

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

No data

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Native Speakers Worldwide

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Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

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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

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More about speakers

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Year of info

2005

Location and Context

Countries

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Coordinates

-9.75,160.666666667

Location description

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Government support

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Speakers’s attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Domains of other languages

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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
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  2. "Telling and Re-telling: documenting Longgu (an Oceanic language of the Solomon Islands) folkloric stories and procedural narratives over time" HRELP Abstract
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    Hill, Deborah. 2002. "Longgu." In The Oceanic Languages, edited by John Lynch et al.. 538-561. Curzon.
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    Hill, Deborah. 1994. "Longgu." In Semantic and lexical universals, edited by Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka. 311-329. Benjamins.
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    Deborah Hill. 2011. "Longgu Grammar." Lincom Europa.