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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

1,200

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Community Members

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Revitalization Programs

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Language Information By Source

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

Native Speakers Worldwide

1,200

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

Data for the number of native speakers comes from Lynch and Crowley (2001).

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Vanuatu;

Coordinates

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Location description

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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

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Domains of other languages

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

20

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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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

Countries

No data

Coordinates

-16.4492,167.7117

Location description

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Government support

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Native Speakers Worldwide

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20 for Nisvai variety: probably a dialect of Port Sandwich, or a closely related language

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Vanuatu

Coordinates

No data

Location description

Southeastern corner area of Malekula, south of Lamap settlement

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

Southeastern corner area of Malekula, south of Lamap settlement

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Bislama, neighboring languages

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

Under pressure from other neighboring languages and Bislama

Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

1,200

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2014

Location and Context

Countries

Vanuatu

Coordinates

No data

Location description

Malekula

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

Malekula

More on writing systems

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Other languages used

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Domains of other languages

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

1200

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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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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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2015

Location and Context

Countries

Vanuatu

Coordinates

-16.447254,167.804502;

Location description

Malekula

Government support

No data

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

Malekula

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Year of info

2005

Location and Context

Countries

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Coordinates

-16.5,167.75

Location description

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

750

Domains of Use

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