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Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking.
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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

220

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Ethnic Population

220

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Year of info

2012

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Native Speakers Worldwide

150

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Year of info

2010

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.9166,-69.5

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

400

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"Many monolinguals, especially children."

Year of info

2013

Location and Context

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Colombia;

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Script (Writing system)

Latin

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Other languages used

Cubeo, Desano, Guanano, Spanish

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

~150

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Ethnic Population

150

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Kakua and Nukak share about 90 per cent of their lexicon and supposedly are mutually intelligible.

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

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Colombia

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Year of info

2005

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Coordinates

1.08333333333,-70.0

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Endangered

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150

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  2. World Oral Literature Project
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  12. Fonologia del Cacua. Sistemos fonologicos de idiomas colombianos
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    Katherine Bolaños and Patience Epps. 2009. "Linguistic Classification of Kakua, a Language of Northwest Amazonia."
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    Cathcart, Marilyn E. and Stephen H. Levinsohn. 1977. "The Encoding of Chronological Progression in Cacua Narratives." In Discourse grammar: Studies in indigenous languages of Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador, part 2, edited by Robert E. Longacre and Frances Woods. 52(2): 69-94. Summer Institute of Linguistics and University of Texas at Arlington.
  16. Texto del Cacua: Aquíwãr Bituriaj~ı4r mic
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