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Native Speakers Worldwide

~115

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The status of the least documented language families in the world
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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

~115

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

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

Indonesia

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Location description

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Government support

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Standard orthography

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Other writing systems

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Other languages used

Indonesian

Domains of other languages

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

20

Domains of Use

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Ethnic Population

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

Countries

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Coordinates

-3.5449,140.7499

Location description

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

20

Domains of Use

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Ethnic Population

160

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

Information concerning the number of speakers is contradictory, and ranges from 160 (1991, which may be the ethnic group or the population of the village), to as low as twenty.

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Indonesia: Irian Jaya

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Location description

Spoken in a village about 50km south of Jayapura.

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Spoken in a village about 50km south of Jayapura.

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Other languages used

Indonesian

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The language seems to be under great pressure from Indonesian, and is considered to be seriously endangered by Indonesian linguists.

Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

110

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Speaker number data: (2004 SIL)

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Indonesia;

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Location description

Papua: South of Jayapura, Usku village; west of Namla [naa], south of Molof [msl] areas

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Papua: South of Jayapura, Usku village; west of Namla [naa], south of Molof [msl] areas

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Severely Endangered

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20

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