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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

20-25

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Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages
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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

20-25

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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Semi-speakers

40

Child speakers

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Ethnic Population

300

Non-monolingual speakers

Most

More about speakers

"In 1991, 20 to 25 fluent speakers and forty with some knowledge of the language were reported out of about 300 in the ethnic group."

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Australia: Northern Queensland, central Cape York Peninsula, at Wrotham Park, Kowanyama, Edward River.

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Other languages used

Torres Strait Creole, Aboriginal languages, English, Kriol

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"The ethnic group speaks mainly Torres Strait Creole (or Broken), and most of them are bilingual in other Aboriginal languages, English, or the English-based pidgin lingua franca Kriol. All this puts pressure on Kunjen..."

Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

2

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Year of info

2010

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Critically Endangered

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2

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

20

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40

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Ethnic Population

300

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20 (1991 B. Sommer). 40 with some knowledge. Ethnic population: 300 (1991 Bruce Sommer).

Year of info

2009

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Australia;

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Year of info

2011

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