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<100

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Diccionario Siriono
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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

<100

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Ahora son menos de cientos hablantes que se reparten en todo Bolivia, con quizá cuarentas personas mayor capaz de hablar de manera creativa la lengua en el territorio Siriono (p7). [Now there are less than a hundred speakers spread throughout Bolivia, with perhaps 40 oldere persons able to speak the language creatively in the Siriono territory (p7).]

Year of info

2015

Location and Context

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Bolivia

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Location description

Primarily in an indigenous territory in the Beni Department.

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Primarily in an indigenous territory in the Beni Department.

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Native Speakers Worldwide

400

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Coordinates

-14.557,-63.7316

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Native Speakers Worldwide

400

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Speaker number data: (Adelaar 2000), increasing. 50 monolinguals. Ethnic population: 419 (Adelaar 2000) to over 600 (P. Priest 2000). 400 (Adelaar 2004), increasing. 30 monolinguals. Ethnic population: 420 (Adelaar 2004). More than half the ethnic group is under 15 years old (Crevels 2007) (2013, unchanged).

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Bolivia;

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Location description

Eastern Beni and northwestern Santa Cruz Departments, Ibiato (Eviato) village; along the Río Blanco in farms and ranches.

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Eastern Beni and northwestern Santa Cruz Departments, Ibiato (Eviato) village; along the Río Blanco in farms and ranches.

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

187

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Ethnic Population

268

Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2012

Location and Context

Countries

Bolivia (Amazonia/ Oriente)

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Year of info

2012

Location and Context

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Coordinates

-15.510264,-63.997361

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

~400

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Ethnic Population

~420

Non-monolingual speakers

92.2 per cent in 1994

More about speakers

More than half of the Siriono ethnic group is under fifteen years of age, which implies that in a few years' time the group may become twice its current size.

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Bolivia

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Location description

departments of Beni and Santa Cruz, provinces of Cercado (El Iviato) and Guarayos (along the Rio Negro).

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departments of Beni and Santa Cruz, provinces of Cercado (El Iviato) and Guarayos (along the Rio Negro).

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Spanish

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Year of info

2005

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Coordinates

-15.5833333333,-64.0

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399

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