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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

50

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Australia and the Pacific
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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

50

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Contradictory reports say that there are still about fifty speakers, whereas others say that it is possibly extinct. In any case, it is at least seriously endangered or moribund, or possibly extinct.

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Indonesia: Sumatra

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Sumatra, on northeast Bangka Island, Belinyu District.

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Sumatra, on northeast Bangka Island, Belinyu District.

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Native Speakers Worldwide

340,000

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Year of info

2009

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Indonesia;

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Year of info

2012

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-2.335839,106.038567

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