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Personal communication about Mapoyo, Yawarana, Pémono, and Tamanaku
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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

3?

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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Mapoyo has 2-3 speakers (both Tania Granadillo and Mattéi Muller each claim to know 2-3 surviving elderly speakers, and it is not clear to me that their lists contain all the same speakers).

Year of info

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Venezuela

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Spanish

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Mapoyo has 2-3 speakers (both Tania Granadillo and Mattéi Muller each claim to know 2-3 surviving elderly speakers, and it is not clear to me that their lists contain all the same speakers).

Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

12

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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Semi-speakers

a few

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

365

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

Data for the number of native speakers comes from the 2001 census. (Unchanged 2016.)

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Venezuela;

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Government support

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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

~12

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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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

No data

Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

365

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

The 2001 census also registered 12 speakers of Mapoyo, but in this case there are probably actually less than a handful of semi-speakers left. In 1998 the last elderly female speaker of Pémono lived with the Yabarana in an Upper Majagua village, but the language may be extinct today.

Year of info

2012

Location and Context

Countries

Venezuela

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Location description

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Other writing systems

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Other languages used

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More on context

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Native Speakers Worldwide

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Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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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

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Year of info

2005

Location and Context

Countries

Venezuela

Coordinates

6.0,-67.0

Location description

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Government support

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Standard orthography

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Other languages used

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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

3

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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