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Papua New Guinea's Languages: Will They Survive?
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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

327

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Year of info

2006

Location and Context

Countries

Papua New Guinea

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Location description

Blackwater Lake region, East Sepik province: Kaningara village.

Government support

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Other writing systems

Blackwater Lake region, East Sepik province: Kaningara village.

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Other languages used

Sare (Kapriman), Tok Pisin

Domains of other languages

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"All Sare and Kaningara speakers are bilingual in Tok Pisin and there is now a noticeable shift towards Tok Pisin. Children of both endogamous and exogamous marriages in the villages are acquiring Tok Pisin as well as the two indigenous languages."

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Native Speakers Worldwide

327

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Coordinates

-4.5784, 143.3612

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

327

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More about speakers

In 1981, 359 speakers were reported. More recent reports mention 327.

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Papua New Guinea

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Location description

Southern central East Sepik Province. Spoken near the Kuvanmas Lake, between the middle Korosamen and Karawari Rivers, west of Amboin.

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Southern central East Sepik Province. Spoken near the Kuvanmas Lake, between the middle Korosamen and Karawari Rivers, west of Amboin.

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Other languages used

Tok Pisin

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

300

Domains of Use

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Ethnic Population

750

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

(Wurm)

Year of info

2015

Location and Context

Countries

Papua New Guinea

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Location description

"East Sepik Province, Blackwater river south of Kuvanmas lake. 2 villages."

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Other writing systems

"East Sepik Province, Blackwater river south of Kuvanmas lake. 2 villages."

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Other languages used

Tok Pisin [tpi]

Domains of other languages

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

359

Domains of Use

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Year of info

1973

Location and Context

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Papua New Guinea

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Location description

Kaningara and Yamondinei villages

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Kaningara and Yamondinei villages

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300

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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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  6. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 18th Edition
    Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2015. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Eighteenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com.
    http://www.ethnologue.com
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