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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

25

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

Native Speakers Worldwide

25

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

No data

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

85

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

Data for the number of native speakers comes from S. Wurm (2000).

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Indonesia;

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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Other writing systems

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Other languages used

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Domains of other languages

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

25

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

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Child speakers

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Young 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

Countries

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Coordinates

-1.7575,138.3178

Location description

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

40

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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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Indonesia: Irian Jaya

Coordinates

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Location description

Spoken east of the mouth of the Apauwar River which is east of the mouth of the large Mamberamo River in the far west of the north coast of Irian Jaya, east of the eastern top end of Cenderawasih Bay.

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Other writing systems

Spoken east of the mouth of the Apauwar River which is east of the mouth of the large Mamberamo River in the far west of the north coast of Irian Jaya, east of the eastern top end of Cenderawasih Bay.

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Isirawa, Samarokena, Indonesian

Domains of other languages

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

< 50

Domains of Use

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Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

"The Masep language, which in the vernacular is called Wotaf, is only spoken in the village of Masep by under fifty speakers."

Year of info

2002

Location and Context

Countries

Indonesia

Coordinates

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Location description

"Masep village can be reached by outrigger canoe from Sarmi in about four hours. It can also be reached by foot from Sarmi in a full day of very hard walking (and crossing rivers) with no rests. As boats do not often frequent Masep village, the people usually walk if they wish to go to Sarmi."

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Speakers' attitudes

"Our overall impression was that this is a small group that is successfully hanging on to their identity. They are surrounded by much larger, linguistically unrelated groups. They are far away from services and economic opportunities. One gets the impression that they feel proud of who they are but vulnerable in their situation."

Standard orthography

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Other writing systems

"Masep village can be reached by outrigger canoe from Sarmi in about four hours. It can also be reached by foot from Sarmi in a full day of very hard walking (and crossing rivers) with no rests. As boats do not often frequent Masep village, the people usually walk if they wish to go to Sarmi."

More on writing systems

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Other languages used

Irianese Malay

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

25

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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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    http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
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    http://www.oralliterature.org
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    Clouse, Duane, Mark Donohue and Felix Ma. 2002. "Survey Report of the North Coast of Irian Jaya."
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  8. Language isolates in the New Guinea region
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