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Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)
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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

62

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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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

Data for the number of native speakers comes from the 1996 census. The number of native speakers is decreasing.

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

New Caledonia;

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Location description

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Government support

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

349

Domains of Use

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

Only speakers above age 14 are included in this figure.

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Location and Context

Countries

New Caledonia

Coordinates

-21.349242, 165.160346

Location description

Spoken in the region of Poya.

Government support

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Other writing systems

Spoken in the region of Poya.

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Other languages used

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

10

Domains of Use

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

Countries

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Coordinates

-21.274,165.0503

Location description

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Government support

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

10-100

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Second-language speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

10-100 speakers reported in 1982. Now it is only a small number.

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

New Caledonia

Coordinates

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Location description

central southwestern coast, on the coast and inland, around Poya town.

Government support

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central southwestern coast, on the coast and inland, around Poya town.

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Ajie¨, Paicı, French

Domains of other languages

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More on context

Arho¨ speakers are bilingual in Ajie¨

Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

10

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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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

"Reported to be near extinction."

Year of info

2006

Location and Context

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Government support

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Other languages used

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

62

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Child speakers

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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. 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
  3. World Oral Literature Project
    "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.
    http://www.oralliterature.org
  4. Australasia and the Pacific
    Wurm, Stephen A. 2007. "Australasia and the Pacific." In Atlas of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by C. Moseley. 425-578. London & New York: Routledge.
  5. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)
    Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)
    http://www.ethnologue.com/
  6. The Future of the Languages of Vanuatu and New Caledonia
    Jean-Michel Charpentier. 2006. "The Future of the Languages of Vanuatu and New Caledonia." In Language Diversity in the Pacific: Endangerment and Survival, edited by Denis Cunningham et al. Multilingual Matters.
  7. Académie des Langues Kanak (ALK)
    "Académie Des Langues Kanak (ALK)." Online: http://www.alk.gouv.nc/portal/page/portal/alk.
    http://www.alk.gouv.nc/portal/page/portal/alk