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Native Speakers Worldwide

510

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Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)
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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

510

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Ethnic Population

1,275

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

Data for the number of native speakers comes from the 2000 census.

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Papua New Guinea;

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Standard orthography

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

266

Domains of Use

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Ethnic Population

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Coordinates

-7.9653,145.7858

Location description

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

266

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Child 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

In 1993, 310 speakers were reported. More recent estimates mention 266.

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Papua New Guinea

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Location description

Coastal eastern part of the Gulf Province. Spoken southeast of Kerema.

Government support

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Other writing systems

Coastal eastern part of the Gulf Province. Spoken southeast of Kerema.

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Toaripi

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Year of info

2005

Location and Context

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Coordinates

-8.0,145.833333333

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

512

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