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Report on the Merauke Subdistrict Survey Papua, Indonesia
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< 150

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"... the Morori language in Wasur is not well preserved and is dying out due to the influence of outsiders. The Morori language is spoken only in Wasur, and the number of speakers is only ten families."

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Indonesia

Coordinates

-8.519, 140.501

Location description

Wasur Village, Merauke Subdistrict, Merauke Regency, Papua Province, Indonesia

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Wasur Village, Merauke Subdistrict, Merauke Regency, Papua Province, Indonesia

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Other languages used

Indonesian

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market, meetings, church service

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"The people in Wasur speak Morori with their parents and during traditional ceremonies, but speak both Morori and Indonesian with their spouses, siblings, friends, and in the fields. They speak only Indonesian at the market, the clinic, in the church service, and in the village’s representative meetings. They speak Indonesian with their spouse and siblings more than their mother tongue."

Severely Endangered

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50

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Year of info

2010

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-8.7113,140.7128

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50

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

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Indonesia: Irian Jaya

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Location description

Spoken in the extreme southwestern corner area of Irian Jaya, close to the Papua New Guinea border, east of Merauke.

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Spoken in the extreme southwestern corner area of Irian Jaya, close to the Papua New Guinea border, east of Merauke.

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Other languages used

Marind, Indonesian

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

50

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Ethnic Population

250

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Data for the number of native speakers and for the ethnic population come from M. Donohue (1998).

Year of info

2009

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Indonesia;

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<119

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Ethnic Population

119

Non-monolingual speakers

many

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"Marori language is highly endangered. There are several fluent speakers left, out of a total of 52 families or 119 people. Marori people typically have mixed marriages with Marind and non-Papuan Indonesians such as the Tanimbar people and currently the Javanese. The sociolinguistic survey carried out in 2000 (Sohn, Lebold & Kriens 2009) reports the precarious nature of the language, which I further confirmed when I did my fieldwork in 2008 and 2009. Young Maroris no longer actively speak their language. They may, however, still have passive competence of varying degrees. They almost all speak Indonesian or the local variety of Indonesian/Malay, and also Marind." (p. 151)

Year of info

2012

Location and Context

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Indonesia

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in Kampung Wasur, around 15 kilometres east of Merauke, Indonesian Papua.

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in Kampung Wasur, around 15 kilometres east of Merauke, Indonesian Papua.

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the local variety of Indonesian/Malay; Marind

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most

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413

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2017

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2005

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-8.58333333333,140.666666667

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50

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