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Native Speakers Worldwide

2,368

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Language Information By Source

A sociolinguistic survey of the Boulba (Notre) language area
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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

2,368

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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

2,368

Non-monolingual speakers

83%% (Biali) and 89%% (Waama)

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

Countries

Atakora Province, Benin

Coordinates

10.798235, 1.669510

Location description

Nanèbou, Bourniéssou, Sépounga, Yarka, Kanafagou, and Koukoulé

Government support

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Institutional support

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Speakers' attitudes

Positive

Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

Nanèbou, Bourniéssou, Sépounga, Yarka, Kanafagou, and Koukoulé

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

French, Biali, Waama

Domains of other languages

Traditional songs and folk stories, official language is French

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Native Speakers Worldwide

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Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

1983

Location and Context

Countries

Atakora, Benin

Coordinates

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Location description

"Il est parlé dans la province de l'atacora, district de Tanguiéta dans les villages de Nanɛngu et de Burinyisu (commune de Tanguiéta)."

Government support

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Institutional support

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Speakers' attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

"Il est parlé dans la province de l'atacora, district de Tanguiéta dans les villages de Nanɛngu et de Burinyisu (commune de Tanguiéta)."

More on writing systems

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Other languages used

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

1,500

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

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More about speakers

Data for the number of native speakers comes from SIL (2002).

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

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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
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