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Central Australian Endangered Languages: So what?
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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

3,000

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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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

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

Countries

Australia

Coordinates

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Location description

"Spoken in the region south-west of Alice Springs in the Western Desert"

Government support

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Institutional support

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Speakers' attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

"Spoken in the region south-west of Alice Springs in the Western Desert"

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Other languages used

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Domains of other languages

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

3,000

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Other writing systems

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Other languages used

No data

Domains of other languages

No data

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

3,000

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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Semi-speakers

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Child 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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Year of info

Location and Context

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Location description

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Other writing systems

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

2,500

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

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Second-language speakers and learners

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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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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

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Location description

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Government support

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

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Other languages used

No data

Domains of other languages

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

2,120

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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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

No data

Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

"80%% monolingual." Data for the number of native speakers comes from the 1996 census.

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Australia;

Coordinates

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Location description

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Government support

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Institutional support

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Speakers' attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

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Other languages used

No data

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

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No data

Native Speakers Worldwide

No data

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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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

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Year of info

2011

Location and Context

Countries

No data

Coordinates

-25.97129594, 130.0189562

Location description

"This is the language of the area around Uluru (Ayers Rock)"

Government support

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Institutional support

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Speakers' attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

"This is the language of the area around Uluru (Ayers Rock)"

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Other languages used

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

A handful

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Semi-speakers

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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

"There are only a handful of speakers remaining."

Year of info

1994

Location and Context

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Government support

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

Arabic-based

Other writing systems

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

2,500

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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