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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

50

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Language Information By Source

Australia and the Pacific
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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

50

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

10

Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

In 1990, 150 speakers were reported. Recent reports mention only fifty, of whom ten are children of around ten years of age.

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Santa Cruz Archipelago, Solomon Islands

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Location description

Eastern Utupua Island

Government support

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Institutional support

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Speakers' attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

Eastern Utupua Island

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Other languages used

Amba, Asumboa, Pijin

Domains of other languages

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More on context

Speakers shifting to Amba, Asumboa, Pijin

Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

50

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

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Child speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder 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

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Coordinates

-11.2935,166.5211

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

15

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

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Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

Speaker number data: (1999 SIL)

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Solomon Islands;

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Location description

Temotu Province, Utupua Island, Tanibili village

Government support

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Other writing systems

Temotu Province, Utupua Island, Tanibili village

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Other languages used

Asumboa

Domains of other languages

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More on context

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

15

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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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    http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
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    "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.
    http://www.oralliterature.org
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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