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Australasia and the Pacific
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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

40

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

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Papua New Guinea

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Location description

Madang Province. Spoken on the southern (Rai) coast of Astrolabe Bay, on the coast at the mouth of the Gowar River west of Dein, and on its lower course.

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Madang Province. Spoken on the southern (Rai) coast of Astrolabe Bay, on the coast at the mouth of the Gowar River west of Dein, and on its lower course.

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Other languages used

Saep, Siroi, Tok Pisin

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

42

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Year of info

2010

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Coordinates

-5.5421, 146.0906

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

35

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(Wurm 2000)

Year of info

2013

Location and Context

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Papua New Guinea

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Location description

"Madang Province, Astrolabe bay south coast, Gowar river mouth, west of Dein, and its lower course."

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"Madang Province, Astrolabe bay south coast, Gowar river mouth, west of Dein, and its lower course."

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35

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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. 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.
  3. 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
  4. World Oral Literature Project
    "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.
    http://www.oralliterature.org
  5. On the Genetic Position of the Bai Language
    Feng Wang. 2005. "On the Genetic Position of the Bai Language." In Cahiers de Linguistique - Asie Orientale, 34: 101-127.
  6. 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)