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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

100

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Transmission

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Community Members

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Language Information By Source

Endangered Languages in West Africa
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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

100

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers

No data

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

100

Non-monolingual speakers

Almost all

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

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Coordinates

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Location description

Zongo Ajiya town in the northwest of the Mambila Plateau in southeastern Nigeria

Government support

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Institutional support

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Speakers’s attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

Zongo Ajiya town in the northwest of the Mambila Plateau in southeastern Nigeria

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Fufulde, Mambila, Ndoro

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

<1,000

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Semi-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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More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

No data

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Location description

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Government support

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Other languages used

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

~100

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language 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

Almost all

More about speakers

"The Mvanɨp people are only 100 (chief's estimate) consisting of a few households in one quarter of Zongo Ajiya."

Year of info

2011

Location and Context

Countries

Nigeria

Coordinates

No data

Location description

"...spoken in Zongo Ajiya in the northwest of the Mambila Plateau in southeastern Nigeria."

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

Speakers’s attitudes

Positive

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

"...spoken in Zongo Ajiya in the northwest of the Mambila Plateau in southeastern Nigeria."

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Fulfulde; Mambila; Ndoro

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

"Almost all individuals seemed to be fluent in the other languages of Zongo Ajiya, Fulfulde, Mambila and Ndoro. Despite this, the language seems to be alive - the Jauro assured us that all the children still speak it, and we observed this to be true."

Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

100

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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Young adult speakers

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Older adult 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

2010

Location and Context

Countries

No data

Coordinates

6.7027,11.2225

Location description

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Government support

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Speakers’s attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Other writing systems

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Other languages used

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Domains of other languages

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

~100

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language 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

2008

Location and Context

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Location description

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Government support

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Script (Writing system)

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Other languages used

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Domains of other languages

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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
    2012. "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."
  2. Endangered Languages in West Africa
    Blench, R. (2007). Endangered Languages in West Africa. In M. Brenzinger (Ed.), Language Diversity Endangered, 140-162. Mouton de Gruyter.
  3. One Thousand Languages: Living, Endangered, and Lost
    Austin, Peter. 2008. "One Thousand Languages: Living, Endangered, and Lost." University of California.
  4. Africa
    Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. and F. K. Erhard Voeltz. 2007. "Africa." In Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by Christopher Moseley. Routledge.
  5. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
    Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)
    http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
  6. An Atlas of Nigerian Languages
    Roger Blench. 2011. "An Atlas of Nigerian Languages." Mallam Dendo. Online: http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/Africa/Nigeria/Atlas%%20of%%20Nigerian%%20Languages-%%20ed%%20III.pdf.
    http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/Africa/Nigeria/Atlas%%20of%%20Nigerian%%20Languages-%%20ed%%20III.pdf
  7. The integrity of Mambiloid
    Bruce A. Connell. 2000. "The Integrity of Mambiloid." In Proceedings of the 2nd world congress of African linguistics, Leipzig 1997, edited by Ekkehard Wolff and Orin David Gensler. 197-213. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.