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Africa
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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

<200

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Ethnic Population

5000

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Year of info

2007

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Kenya, near Somali border

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Orma, Somali, Swahili

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"Many of its former speakers have switched to the Cushitic language Orma or Somali, or to Swahili."

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2000-5000

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Year of info

1992

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Kenya; Somalia

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"Heine (1982a: 11): 'The boni people inhabit the hinterland of the northern Kenya coast as well as the adjacent parts in southern Somalia... administratively, the vast majority of them live in the Lamu District of Coast Province, Republic of Kenya."

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"Heine (1982a: 11): 'The boni people inhabit the hinterland of the northern Kenya coast as well as the adjacent parts in southern Somalia... administratively, the vast majority of them live in the Lamu District of Coast Province, Republic of Kenya."

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3,000

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2010

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-.8294,40.8142

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8,000 in Kenya. Less than 20%% monolingual.

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2009

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Kenya; Somalia;

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