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Native Speakers Worldwide

58

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Australasia and the Pacific
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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

58

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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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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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

Today, the number of speakers is still around 60.

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Papua New Guinea

Coordinates

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Location description

Madang Province. Spoken at the headwaters of the Gogol River, west of Mabanob, northwest of Madang town.

Government support

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

Madang Province. Spoken at the headwaters of the Gogol River, west of Mabanob, northwest of Madang town.

More on writing systems

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Other languages used

Garuh, Tok Pisin

Domains of other languages

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More on context

The language is under pressure from neighbouring large languages such as Garuh, and Tok Pisin, which is taking its toll.

Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

60

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Coordinates

-5.0454, 145.5822

Location description

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Government support

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

50

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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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

130

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

(Wurm 2000)

Year of info

2013

Location and Context

Countries

Papua New Guinea

Coordinates

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Location description

"Madang Province, headwaters of the Gogol river, west of Mabanob, northwest of Madang town."

Government support

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

"Madang Province, headwaters of the Gogol river, west of Mabanob, northwest of Madang town."

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Nobonob [gaw], Tok Pisin [tpi]

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

"Heavy influence from Nobonob [gaw] and Tok Pisin [tpi] (Wurm 2007)."

Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

50

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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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
    2012. "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."
  2. World Oral Literature Project
    "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.
    http://www.oralliterature.org
  3. Australasia and the Pacific
    Stephen Wurm. 2007. "Australasia and the Pacific." In Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by Christopher Moseley. 425-577. Routledge.
  4. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
    Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)
    http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
  5. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 17th Edition (2013)
    Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.), 2013. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 17th edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com.
    http://www.ethnologue.com Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 17th Edition (2013)