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Native Speakers Worldwide

~6

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Ura: a disappearing language of Southern Vanuatu
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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

~6

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

6

Ethnic Population

No data

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

There were only a handful of speakers in their 70's and 80's in the late 1990's. It is unlikely that the language is still being used today

Year of info

1999

Location and Context

Countries

Vanuatu

Coordinates

No data

Location description

Unpogkor (Dillans Bay), north Erromango

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

Speakers’s attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

Unpogkor (Dillans Bay), north Erromango

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

No data

Domains of other languages

No data

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No data

Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

7

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

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Erromanga Island, Vanuatu

Coordinates

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Location description

Northern part of Erromanga Island

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

Speakers’s attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

Northern part of Erromanga Island

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Erromanga

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

No data

Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

6

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

No data

More about speakers

Speaker number data: (T. Crowley 1998)

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Vanuatu;

Coordinates

No data

Location description

Southern Vanuatu, North Erromanga Island

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

Speakers’s attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

Southern Vanuatu, North Erromanga Island

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

No data

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

No data

Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

6

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

2015

Location and Context

Countries

Vanuatu

Coordinates

-18.656405,169.064527;

Location description

Erromango

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

Speakers’s attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

Erromango

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

No data

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

No data

No data

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

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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

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Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2005

Location and Context

Countries

No data

Coordinates

-18.6666666667,169.083333333

Location description

No data

Government support

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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

No data

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

No data

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

No data

Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

6

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

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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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Government support

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

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Other languages used

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Domains of other languages

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  1. Australia and the Pacific
    Wurm, Stephen A. 2007. Australia and the Pacific. In Christopher Moseley, Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, 1 edn., 424-557. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 070071197X
  2. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)
    Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)
    http://www.ethnologue.com/
  3. World Oral Literature Project
    "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.
    http://www.oralliterature.org
  4. The World Atlas of Language Structures
    2005. "The World Atlas of Language Structures." edited by Bernard Comrie et al. Oxford University Press.
  5. Ura: a disappearing language of Southern Vanuatu
    Crowley, Terry. 1999. "Ura: a Disappearing Language of Southern Vanuatu." 156: xiii, 226 S.. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.
  6. Ura
    Crowley, Terry. 1998. "Ura." 240: München: Lincom.
  7. Ura grammar sketch and vocabulary
    Lynch, John. 1983. "Ura Grammar Sketch and Vocabulary." In Studies in the Languages of Erromango, edited by John Lynch. 79: 148-183. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.
  8. The Ura language, Erromango
    Lynch, John. 1982. "The Ura Language, Erromango." In GAVA': Studies in Austronesian languages and cultures dedicated to Hans Kähler, edited by Rainer Carle et al.. 215-236. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer.
  9. Topics in Ura phonology and Morphophonology, with lexicographic application
    Stanton, Lee. Topics in Ura Phonology and Morphophonology, with Lexicographic Application. Master thesis, University of Canterbury, 2007.
  10. Ura
    Crowley, Terry. 1998. "Ura." 240: Lincom Europa.