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Personal Communication on Toto
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Native Speakers Worldwide

1,400

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Toby Anderson is a linguist who works with the Toto people. He bases this speaker number estimate off of communication with Dhaniram Toto, the president of Toto Kalyan Samity, the Committee for the Preservation of Toto Language and Culture.

Year of info

2013

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

1,000

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Coordinates

26.6867,89.5056

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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

20,000

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Speaker number data: (King 1994)

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

India

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Location description

West Bengal, Jalpaiguri District, Subhapara, Dhunchipara, Panchayatpara hillocks on Indo-Bhutan border, Totopara village

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West Bengal, Jalpaiguri District, Subhapara, Dhunchipara, Panchayatpara hillocks on Indo-Bhutan border, Totopara village

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Other languages used

Hindi, Bengali, or Nepali

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Native Speakers Worldwide

<1,000

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"Just under a thousand speakers known in 1994."

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

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India

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Location description

"West Bengal, Jalpāīguḍī district, near Bhutanese border."

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"West Bengal, Jalpāīguḍī district, near Bhutanese border."

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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

20,000

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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. 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.)
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  3. World Oral Literature Project
    "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.
    http://www.oralliterature.org
  4. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)
    Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)
    http://www.ethnologue.com/
  5. Personal Communication
    Gregory Anderson. 2012. "Personal Communication."
  6. South Asia and the Middle East
    Driem, George Van. 2007. "South Asia and the Middle East." In Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by Christopher Mosely. 289-348. London and NewYork: Routledge.
  7. Personal Communication on Toto
    Toby Anderson, personal communication, March 13, 2013.
  8. Toda texts
    Nara, Tsuyoshi and Bhasukararao, Peri. 2002. Toda texts. (Endangered Languages of the Pacific Rim Publications Series, A3-005.) Osaka: ELPR. 94pp.