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Australasia and the Pacific
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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

1,500

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers

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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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More about speakers

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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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Other writing systems

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Other languages used

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

2,100

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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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

2,100

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers

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Child speakers

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Older adult 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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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

<35

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers

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Semi-speakers

5

Child speakers

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More about speakers

"A [respondent] reported that Tiwi has up to 35 speakers, none on whom are full speakers."

Year of info

2014

Location and Context

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

1,830

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language 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

"Nonfluent speakers." Speaker number data is from a 1996 census.

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Australia;

Coordinates

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Location description

Northern Territory; Bathurst and Melville Islands; Nguiu;

Government support

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Institutional support

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Speakers’s attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

Northern Territory; Bathurst and Melville Islands; Nguiu;

More on writing systems

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Other languages used

English;

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Native Speakers Worldwide

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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

2011

Location and Context

Countries

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Coordinates

-11.6788294, 130.8353696

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Native Speakers Worldwide

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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

1993

Location and Context

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Script (Writing system)

Yes

Other writing systems

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Other languages used

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Domains of other languages

Church services

More on context

"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."

Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

1,500

Domains of Use

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  1. Tiwi Today: A Study of Language Change in a Contact Situation
    Lee, Jennifer. 1987. "Tiwi Today: A Study of Language Change in a Contact Situation." 96: Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.
  2. Community, identity, wellbeing: the report of the Second National Indigenous Languages Survey
    Doug 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.
  3. Ngawurranungurumagi Ngininingawila Ngapangiraga. Tiwi-English Dictionary
    Lee, Jennifer R. 1993. "Ngawurranungurumagi Ngininingawila Ngapangiraga. Tiwi-English Dictionary." Summer Institute of Linguistics.
  4. The Tiwi Language
    Osborne, C. R. 1974. "The Tiwi Language." 55: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
  5. Changes in the roundedness feature in Tiwi
    Lee, Jennifer R. 1984. "Changes in the Roundedness Feature in Tiwi."
  6. Tiwi Today: a study of language change in a contact situation
    Lee, J. R. 1983. "Tiwi Today: a Study of Language Change in a Contact Situation."
  7. Acoustic characteristics of Tiwi coronal stops
    Anderson, V. B. and Ian Maddieson. 1994. "Acoustic Characteristics of Tiwi Coronal Stops." In UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 87: 131-162.
  8. Tiwi: a language struggling to survive
    Lee, 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.
  9. Étude linguistique et éthnolinguistique de la langue Tiwi (Australie)
    Plassais, Françoise. Étude Linguistique Et Éthnolinguistique De La Langue Tiwi (Australie). PhD thesis, Paris: Université Paris IV -- Sorbonne, 1999.
  10. The Tiwi Language
    Osborne, C. R. 1974. "The Tiwi Language." Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
  11. Tiwi Today: a study of language change in a contact situation
    Lee, J.R. Tiwi Today: a Study of Language Change in a Contact Situation. PhD thesis, , 1983.
  12. 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
    2012. "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."
  13. The Tiwi of North Australia
    Hart, C.W.M. and Arnold R. Pilling. 1979. "The Tiwi of North Australia." New York: Holt, Reinhart and Winston.
  14. The Tiwi of Melville and Bathurst Islands
    Hart, C. W. M. 1930. "The Tiwi of Melville and Bathurst Islands." In Oceania, I: 167-180.
  15. Tiwi
    Goodale, Jane C. 1999. "Tiwi." In The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Hunters and Gatherers, edited by Richard B. Lee and Richard Daly. 353-357. Cambridge University Press.
  16. New Uses for Old Languages
    Paul Black. 1993. "New Uses For Old Languages." In Language and Culture in Aboriginal Australia, edited by Michael Walsh and Colin Yallop. 207-223. Aboriginal Studies Press.
  17. 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/
  18. 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
  19. Australasia and the Pacific
    Tryon, Darrell. 2007. "Australasia and the Pacific." In Atlas of the World's Languages, edited by R. E. Asher and Christopher Moseley. 97-126. Routledge.
  20. Austlang: Australian Indigenous Languages Database
    AUSTLANG: Australian Indigenous Languages Database. (19 October, 2009.)
    http://austlang.aiatsis.gov.au
  21. World Oral Literature Project
    "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.
    http://www.oralliterature.org
  22. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
    Moseley, 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