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Native Speakers Worldwide

320

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

Native Speakers Worldwide

320

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Data for the number of native speakers comes from the 1996 census.

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Australia;

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Endangered

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160

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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-9.9201,144.0472

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

160

Domains of Use

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Year of info

1983

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"As progress was made with the basic dictionary work, other projects developed from it. Some of the results of these projects will be used in educational and literacy work on Murray Island. Although the Meriam Mir language is currently not used in school on the Island, there is a move amongst the Islanders to introduce it."

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Year of info

2005

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-9.91666666667,144.083333333

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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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  2. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
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    http://www.ethnologue.com/
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  8. Vocabularies of the Bugilai and Tagota Dialects, British New Guinea
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  9. A Sketch Grammar of Meryam Mer
    Piper, N. A Sketch Grammar of Meryam Mer. Master thesis, Canberra: Australian National University, 1989.
  10. A Grammar of the Miriam Language Spoken by the Eastern Islanders of Torres Straits
    Ray, Sidney H. 1907. "A Grammar of the Miriam Language Spoken By the Eastern Islanders of Torres Straits." In Linguistics, edited by Sidney H. Ray. III: 49-87. Cambridge University Press.
  11. A Vocabulary of the Miriam Language Spoken by the Eastern Islanders of Torres Straits
    Ray, Sidney H. 1907. "A Vocabulary of the Miriam Language Spoken By the Eastern Islanders of Torres Straits." In Linguistics, edited by Sidney H. Ray. III: 131-186. Cambridge University Press.
  12. A Study of the Languages of Torres Straits with Vocabularies and Grammatical Notes: Part I
    Ray, Sidney H. and Alfred C. Haddon. 1891-1893. "A Study of the Languages of Torres Straits with Vocabularies and Grammatical Notes: Part I." In Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Third Series, II: 463-616.
  13. A Sketch Grammar of Meryam Mir
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  14. Meryam Mir
    Passi, Gamalai Ken and Nick Piper. 1999. "Meryam Mir." In Macquarie Aboriginal Words: A Dictionary of Words from Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages, edited by Nick Thieberger and William Mcgregor. 320-351. The Macquarie Library Pty Ltd.