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Native Speakers Worldwide

7,000

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Language Information By Source

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

Native Speakers Worldwide

7,000

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

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Ethnic Population

7,000

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

Speaker number data: (2001 SIL), decreasing.

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Indonesia, Papua

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Location description

Central highlands area, upper Rouffaer River basin north of Damal, northwest of Dem, south of Kirikiri, Iau and Duvele, east of Moni, west of Western Dani

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Standard orthography

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Other writing systems

Central highlands area, upper Rouffaer River basin north of Damal, northwest of Dem, south of Kirikiri, Iau and Duvele, east of Moni, west of Western Dani

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

3,500

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Child speakers

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Coordinates

-3.5463,137.9058

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

3,500

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Child speakers

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Indonesia: Irian Jaya

Coordinates

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Location description

Spoken in the central highlands area, on the Upper Tariku (Dou) River which is there known as the Yamo River. Lingua franca and trade language in the area.

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Spoken in the central highlands area, on the Upper Tariku (Dou) River which is there known as the Yamo River. Lingua franca and trade language in the area.

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No data

Other languages used

Western Dani, Indonesian

Domains of other languages

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More on context

Wano is under pressure from the neighbouring very large Western Dani language, and is also losing its trade language status. Indonesian is also beginning to play a role.

Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

7,000

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