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Native Speakers Worldwide

a few hundred

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One or two? Bom and Kim, two highly endangered South Atlantic “languages” of Sierra Leone
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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

a few hundred

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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More about speakers

Speaker number combine both Bom and Krim.

Year of info

2012

Location and Context

Countries

Sierra Leone

Coordinates

7.302792, -11.985668

Location description

Villages in the vicinity of Lake Kwako, Lake Baima, and Lame Kamasun.

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Other writing systems

Villages in the vicinity of Lake Kwako, Lake Baima, and Lame Kamasun.

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

~500

Domains of Use

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Ethnic Population

10,000

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

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Other languages used

Mende

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

20

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Coordinates

7.2425,-11.9476

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

A few dozen

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Non-monolingual speakers

All

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

southeastern Sierra Leone

Coordinates

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Location description

"Coastal tidelands of south-eastern Sierra Leone... tiny fishing villages along a remote tidal estuary."

Government support

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"Coastal tidelands of south-eastern Sierra Leone... tiny fishing villages along a remote tidal estuary."

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Mende

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

No data

Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

<500

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

10000

Non-monolingual speakers

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No data

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

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No data

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Government support

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Other languages used

Sherbro, Temne

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No data

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Severely 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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Year of info

2006

Location and Context

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Location description

"Today Krim speakers number only a few score, living in isolated hamlets along the tidal estuary of the Waanje, well protected from imposition, at least by land. No roads reach these villages."

Government support

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Other writing systems

"Today Krim speakers number only a few score, living in isolated hamlets along the tidal estuary of the Waanje, well protected from imposition, at least by land. No roads reach these villages."

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Mende

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

"The more prosaic story is that the Krim have assimilated completely to the Mende by whom they are surrounded – Krim-speaking mothers even speak to their infants in Mende. One mother commented that they speak Mende to their children so that they can suck it down with their milk (Bete Masale 2006 p.c.)."

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