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Native Speakers Worldwide

~1,500

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Language shift and language death among Mande blacksmiths and leatherworkers in the diaspora
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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

~1,500

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

~20,000

Non-monolingual speakers

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"Ongoing and largely completed language shift; Jeri must be regarded an endangered language."

Year of info

1998

Location and Context

Countries

Côte d'Ivoire

Coordinates

9.455581, -5.637460

Location description

"The totality of the Jeri live as a minority in distinct wards of Sienare villages [around Korhogo, Ivory Coast]."

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

"The totality of the Jeri live as a minority in distinct wards of Sienare villages [around Korhogo, Ivory Coast]."

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Other languages used

Manding, Sienare

Domains of other languages

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"The Jeri as a whole are either (at least) bilingual in Jeri.kuo and a dominant language [Sienare or Manding], with an observable tendency for language shift, or have already completed the process of shift and abandoned Jeri.kuo... it is explicitly argued that the new language (Manding) 'is better for the young ones', or will 'give them an advantage.'"

Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

~1,500

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers

No data

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

20,000

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

No data

Coordinates

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Location description

Around Korhogo in the northern Ivory Coast

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

Around Korhogo in the northern Ivory Coast

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Gur, Manding

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

1,500

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

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

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Coordinates

9.2647,-5.8666

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Standard orthography

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Other languages used

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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. Africa
    Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. and F. K. Erhard Voeltz. 2007. "Africa." In Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by Christopher Moseley. Routledge.
  3. 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.)
    http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
  4. Language shift and language death among Mande blacksmiths and leatherworkers in the diaspora
    Kastenholz, Raimund. 1998. "Language Shift and Language Death Among Mande Blacksmiths and Leatherworkers in the Diaspora." In Endangered languages in Africa, edited by Matthias Brenzinger. 253-266. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
  5. Funktionale Sprachbeschreibung des Jeli (West-Mande)
    Tröbs, Holger. 1998. "Funktionale Sprachbeschreibung Des Jeli (West-Mande)." 3: Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.