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Native Speakers Worldwide

60-100

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Some language and sociolinguistic relationships in the Upper Sepik region of Papua New Guinea
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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

60-100

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

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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"between 60 and 100 people"

Year of info

1988

Location and Context

Countries

Papua New Guinea

Coordinates

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Location description

"Lariaso on the Hewe River and Harepi on the Miwe River, both of which are tributaries of the Wogamus. Some of the Yabio people formerly lived at Woswori, which is now deserted."

Government 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

"Lariaso on the Hewe River and Harepi on the Miwe River, both of which are tributaries of the Wogamus. Some of the Yabio people formerly lived at Woswori, which is now deserted."

More on writing systems

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Other languages used

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

66

Domains of Use

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census

Year of info

2015

Location and Context

Countries

Papua New Guinea

Coordinates

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Location description

"Sandaun Province, Telefomin district, east of Duranmin, 3 villages; East Sepik Province, Ambunti-Dreikikir district; language area situated astride upstream portion of Wano river."

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Other writing systems

"Sandaun Province, Telefomin district, east of Duranmin, 3 villages; East Sepik Province, Ambunti-Dreikikir district; language area situated astride upstream portion of Wano river."

More on writing systems

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Other languages used

Saniyo-Hiyewe [sny]

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Year of info

2012

Location and Context

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Coordinates

-4.45322, 142.0981

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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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

100

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Child speakers

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(Townsends 1969)

Year of info

1973

Location and Context

Countries

Papua New Guinea

Coordinates

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Location description

Siabio, Waswori, and "Unknown villages"

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

Siabio, Waswori, and "Unknown villages"

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

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Domains of other languages

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

122

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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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Location description

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Government support

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Other languages used

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

100

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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