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A sociolinguistic survey of Beli, Yahang and Laeko-Libuat
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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

<1,453

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Ethnic Population

1,453

Non-monolingual speakers

Many speak Tok Pisin; few speak English

More about speakers

Population of seven villages: 1,400 + 53 absentees

Year of info

1981

Location and Context

Countries

Papua New Guinea

Coordinates

-3.671039, 142.382813

Location description

Seven villages in Maimai Namblo Census Division, Nuku District, West Sepik Province: Aimukili, Makafim, Mukili, Rangwei, Waniwomaka, Yemereba, Yulem

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Speakers' attitudes

Positive

Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

Latin script

Other writing systems

Seven villages in Maimai Namblo Census Division, Nuku District, West Sepik Province: Aimukili, Makafim, Mukili, Rangwei, Waniwomaka, Yemereba, Yulem

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Other languages used

Tok Pisin, English

Domains of other languages

Tok Pisin used for local government, school, some church services

More on context

"Tok Pisin is also spoken in the home. Knowledge of English is quite minimal throughout the area. ... [Beli] is preferred to any other language for general day to day conversation."

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Native Speakers Worldwide

2,200

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Year of info

2015

Location and Context

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Papua New Guinea

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Location description

"Sandaun Province, west of Mehek."

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Latin

Other writing systems

"Sandaun Province, west of Mehek."

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Year of info

2012

Location and Context

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Coordinates

-3.685606003, 142.3839417

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Native Speakers Worldwide

1,241

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Year of info

1973

Location and Context

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Papua New Guinea

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Location description

7 villages: Aimukili, Makafim, Makafu, Mukili, Waniwomaka, Yemereba, and Yulem.

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7 villages: Aimukili, Makafim, Makafu, Mukili, Waniwomaka, Yemereba, and Yulem.

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2,202

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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. World Oral Literature Project
    "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.
    http://www.oralliterature.org
  3. LL-MAP (Language and Location: A Map Accessibility Project)
    Anthony Aristar, Helen Aristar-Dry and Yichun Xie. 2012. "LL-MAP (Language and Location: A Map Accessibility Project)." Online: http://llmap.org.
    http://llmap.org
  4. A sociolinguistic survey of Beli, Yahang and Laeko-Libuat
    Cooper, Gregory. 1981. "A Sociolinguistic Survey of Beli, Yahang and Laeko-Libuat." In Sociolinguistic surveys of Sepik languages, edited by Richard Loving. 29: 141-161. Summer Institute of Linguistics.
  5. Sepik languages: checklist and preliminary classification
  6. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 18th Edition
    Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2015. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Eighteenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com.
    http://www.ethnologue.com