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Native Speakers Worldwide

300

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Bwatoo: et les dialectes de la région de Koné (Nouvelle-Calédonie)
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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

300

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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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2006

Location and Context

Countries

New Caledonia

Coordinates

-21.039, 164.697; -21.355, 165.097

Location description

Koné region on the south central coast. Villages of Oundjo and Népou.

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Other writing systems

Koné region on the south central coast. Villages of Oundjo and Népou.

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

878

Domains of Use

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Ethnic Population

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Coordinates

-20.9665,164.7866

Location description

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

300

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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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

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Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

300 speakers reported in 1982. Today their number is somewhat less.

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

New Caledonia

Coordinates

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Location description

A third of the length of New Caledonia from its northwestern end, on the southwestern coast at Oundjo, and further south near Poya.

Government support

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A third of the length of New Caledonia from its northwestern end, on the southwestern coast at Oundjo, and further south near Poya.

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Other languages used

Ajie¨, Paicı, French

Domains of other languages

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More on context

Language under pressure from neighboring Ajie¨and Paicı, and from French

Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

300

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Child speakers

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Ethnic Population

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More about speakers

Data for the number of native speakers comes from SIL (1982).

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

New Caledonia;

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

300

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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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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    "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.
    http://www.oralliterature.org
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    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. 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
  6. Bwatoo: et les dialectes de la région de Koné (Nouvelle-Calédonie)
    Jean-Claude Rivierre. 2006. "Bwatoo: Et Les Dialectes De La Région De Koné (Nouvelle-Calédonie)." Paris: Peeters.