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Defaka & Nkoroo Description & Documentation
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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

<200

Domains of Use

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Non-monolingual speakers

All

More about speakers

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Year of info

2011

Location and Context

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Location description

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Government support

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

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Other languages used

Nkoroo

Domains of other languages

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

<1,000

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Nkoroo town, Niger Delta, Nigeria

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Other languages used

Nkoroo, Igbo, Obolo, Kana

Domains of other languages

No data

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Native Speakers Worldwide

~200

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

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More about speakers

Speaker number: "ca. 200 [n.b. competence levels vary]"

Year of info

2011

Location and Context

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Location description

"Rivers State, Bonny LGA, ward of Nkọrọ town and Ịwọma Nkọrọ."

Government support

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Other writing systems

"Rivers State, Bonny LGA, ward of Nkọrọ town and Ịwọma Nkọrọ."

More on writing systems

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Other languages used

Nkọrọọ

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

200

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

No data

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Child 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

2010

Location and Context

Countries

Nigeria

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Location description

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Government support

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Institutional support

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Other writing systems

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Other languages used

No data

Domains of other languages

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More on context

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

~200

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

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

"Those [speakers] in direct contact with Nkoroo are losing their language"

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

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Other languages used

No data

Domains of other languages

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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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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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Year of info

2005

Location and Context

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No data

Coordinates

4.58333333333,7.5

Location description

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    Akinbiyi Akinlabi. 2007. ""Documenting Defaka [afn] and Nkoroo [nkx]" NSF DEL Abstract." Online: http://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0553971&version=noscript.
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    http://defaka.rutgers.edu/project.html
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