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"The last fluent Sowa speaker died in 2000. Many people in the former Sowa area view the language as part of their cultural heritage and lament its loss, and several local enthusiasts dream of reviving it."
2010
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Vanuatu
-15.775905, 168.185812
Sowa was spoken on central Pentecost Island. On the west coast, Melsisii River formed Sowa's northern boundary with Apma, and a creek near Levizendam (there is disagreement about exactly which one) formed its southern boundary with Ske. The language's area extended across the island to parallel areas on the east coast.
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Sowa was spoken on central Pentecost Island. On the west coast, Melsisii River formed Sowa's northern boundary with Apma, and a creek near Levizendam (there is disagreement about exactly which one) formed its southern boundary with Ske. The language's area extended across the island to parallel areas on the east coast.
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In 1971, twenty speakers were reported. Now there will be considerably less.
2007
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Pentecost Island, Vanuatu
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West coast of central southern Pentecost Island.
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West coast of central southern Pentecost Island.
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Speaker number data: (Tryon 1971)
2009
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2012
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-15.797347,168.174972
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- 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 University2012. "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."
- 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/
- World Oral Literature Project"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.http://www.oralliterature.org
- LL-MAP (Language and Location: A Map Accessibility Project)Anthony Aristar, Helen Aristar-Dry and Yichun Xie. 2012. "LL-MAP (Language and Location: A Map Accessibility Project)." Online: http://llmap.org.http://llmap.org
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