Tiwi
Tunuvivi; Diwi; Wonga:k; Wongak; Wunuk; Ni-mara; Woranguwe;
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Tiwi Description I
Tiwi Description II
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2007
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"A [respondent] reported that Tiwi has up to 35 speakers, none on whom are full speakers."
2014
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"Nonfluent speakers." Speaker number data is from a 1996 census.
2009
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Australia;
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Northern Territory; Bathurst and Melville Islands; Nguiu;
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Northern Territory; Bathurst and Melville Islands; Nguiu;
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"When I attended a Catholic mass on Bathurst Island, for example, much of the liturgy, but the sermon was delivered in the local Tiwi language...The hymns were also in Tiwi...Prayers are also sometimes said in Tiwi."
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- Community, identity, wellbeing: the report of the Second National Indigenous Languages SurveyDoug Marmion, Kazuko Obata and Jakelin Troy. 2014. "Community, Identity, Wellbeing: the Report of the Second National Indigenous Languages Survey." Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
- Tiwi: a language struggling to surviveLee, Jennifer R. 1988. "Tiwi: a Language Struggling To Survive." In Aboriginal language use in the Northern Territory: 5 reports, edited by Michael J. Ray. 75-96. 13: Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, Australian Aborigines and Islanders Branch B.
- 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/
- How many languages were spoken in Australia?Claire Bowern. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?" Online: http://anggarrgoon.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/austlangs-masterlanguagelist-dec2011.xlsx.http://anggarrgoon.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/austlangs-masterlanguagelist-dec2011.xlsx
- Austlang: Australian Indigenous Languages DatabaseAUSTLANG: Australian Indigenous Languages Database. (19 October, 2009.)http://austlang.aiatsis.gov.au
- World Oral Literature Project"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.http://www.oralliterature.org
- Atlas of the World’s Languages in DangerMoseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
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