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Yan-nhaŋu Language Documentation and Revitalisation
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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

265

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

204

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"Yan-nhaŋu itself is not a homogeneous language (Bowern 2008). There are six patrilectal or clan varieties; three are Dhuwa, three Yirritja. [...] In addition to the small number of fluent speakers between the ages of 40 and 80 there are approximately 150 heritage owners with patrilineal ancestral connections to Yan-nhaŋu language, land, sea and madayin (sacred paraphernalia), and a further 120 Yirritja Burrara/Yan-nhaŋu (Gamal, Gidjingali, and Anbarra) people with language ownership rights."

Year of info

2010

Location and Context

Countries

Crocodile Islands of North- Eastern Arnhem

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Location description

"It is a member of the Nhaŋu dialect cluster spoken from the Crocodile Islands in the west to the Wessel Islands in the east."

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Speakers' attitudes

Yan-nhaŋu language learning is not a high priority for heritage owners

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Other writing systems

"It is a member of the Nhaŋu dialect cluster spoken from the Crocodile Islands in the west to the Wessel Islands in the east."

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Other languages used

Dhuwal, Djambarrpuyŋu, Gupapuyŋu, English

Domains of other languages

In the public domain Djambarrpuyŋu is the lingua franca among Yolŋu at Milingimbi, and English is used with the non-Indigenous school and government service providers, such as store managers, teachers and nurses

More on context

"Yan-nhaŋu has very low prestige at Milingimbi outside the Yan-nhaŋu clans."

Severely Endangered

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61

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Year of info

2010

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Critically Endangered

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7

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Critically Endangered

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40

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Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

"In 1983, possibly forty speakers were reported."

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Australia: Northern Northern Territory, northern Arnhem Land, on two of the most western Crocodile Islands, adjacent to Cape Stewart, Maningrida and Millingimbi.

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Other languages used

Djambarrpuyngu, Gupapuyngu, Burarra

Domains of other languages

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More on context

"The speakers generally speak the closely related large lingua franco Djambarrpuyngu, or also closley related Gupapuyngu, or Burarra."

Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

40

Domains of Use

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(Black 1983)

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Australia;

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Location description

Northern Territory, 2 of westernmost Crocodile Islands, adjacent to Cape Stewart, Maningrida and Milingimbi.

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Northern Territory, 2 of westernmost Crocodile Islands, adjacent to Cape Stewart, Maningrida and Milingimbi.

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Year of info

2011

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-12.0253188,134.9636469

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