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Native Speakers Worldwide

300

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

Native Speakers Worldwide

300

Domains of Use

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More about speakers

Speaker number data: (S. Wurm 2000)

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Indonesia;

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Location description

West Lakes Plain (Paniai), southwest of Danau Bira, Deraposi area, northeast of Fayu [fau], northwest of Edopi [dbf].

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Other writing systems

West Lakes Plain (Paniai), southwest of Danau Bira, Deraposi area, northeast of Fayu [fau], northwest of Edopi [dbf].

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

300

Domains of Use

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Coordinates

-2.8744,136.2469

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

350

Domains of Use

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Indonesia: Irian Jaya

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Location description

Spoken northeast of the juncture of the Tariku (Dou) and Muyabe (Fou) rivers, north of the upper Rouffaer River, around Deraposi, in the western central part of non-peninsular Irian Jaya.

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Spoken northeast of the juncture of the Tariku (Dou) and Muyabe (Fou) rivers, north of the upper Rouffaer River, around Deraposi, in the western central part of non-peninsular Irian Jaya.

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Other languages used

Fayu

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Bilingualism in Fayu is present especially with the young generation, and pressure is exerted upon the language by it. No Indonesian spoken.

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Native Speakers Worldwide

300

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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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  2. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)
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    http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
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    Wurm, Stephen A. 2007. Australia and the Pacific. In Christopher Moseley, Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, 1 edn., 424-557. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 070071197X
  6. Between two worlds: a photo documentary of the Tause culture of Irian Jaya, Indonesia
    Munnings, Mary Jane and Peter Munnings. 1990. "Between Two Worlds: a Photo Documentary of the Tause Culture of Irian Jaya, Indonesia." 45. Cenderawasih University and Summer Institute of Linguistics.