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Native Speakers Worldwide

25,000

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

Native Speakers Worldwide

25,000

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Data for the number of native speakers comes from SIL (1999).

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Papua New Guinea;

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

~7000

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"I have worked in the Gahuku area since 1959 under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, and a fairly comprehensive description of that language is now in print (Deibler 1975)."

Year of info

1976

Location and Context

Countries

Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea

Coordinates

-6.066817,145.39135

Location description

"Gahuku is the name most commonly used for the language spoken by some 7000 people in the area surrounding the town of Goroka."

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"Gahuku is the name most commonly used for the language spoken by some 7000 people in the area surrounding the town of Goroka."

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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

16,000

Domains of Use

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Year of info

1992

Location and Context

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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

~40,000

Domains of Use

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

Almost all

More about speakers

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Year of info

2008

Location and Context

Countries

Papua New Guinea;

Coordinates

-6.086192, 145.386028

Location description

"Surrounding, but mostly to the north and northwest of, the town of Goroka in the Eastern Highlands Province... There are some fifty villages within the Alekano area."

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Script (Writing system)

Latin script

Other writing systems

"Surrounding, but mostly to the north and northwest of, the town of Goroka in the Eastern Highlands Province... There are some fifty villages within the Alekano area."

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Other languages used

Tok Pisin

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"Tok Pisin is used by almost everyone as a means of communication."

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Year of info

2005

Location and Context

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Coordinates

-6.0,145.416666667

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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

25,000

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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. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)
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    http://www.oralliterature.org
  4. The World Atlas of Language Structures
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  5. Dictionaries of Alekano - English and English - Alekano Compiled by Wanimapi
    Ellis W. Deibler. 2008. "Dictionaries of Alekano - English and English - Alekano Compiled By Wanimapi." Summer Institute of Linguistics. Online: http://www-01.sil.org/pacific/png/abstract.asp?id=51218.
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  6. Alekano Organised Phonology Data
    Ellis W. Deibler. 1992. "Alekano Organised Phonology Data." Online: http://www-01.sil.org/pacific/png/abstract.asp?id=928474542307.
    http://www-01.sil.org/pacific/png/abstract.asp?id=928474542307
  7. Uses of the verb 'to say' in Gahuku
    Ellis W. Deibler. 1971. "Uses of the Verb 'to Say' in Gahuku." Online: http://www.langlxmelanesia.com/kivung%%20vol%%204%%20no%%202%%20uses%%20of%%20the%%20verb%%20'to%%20say'%%20in%%20gahuku.pdf.
    http://www.langlxmelanesia.com/kivung%%20vol%%204%%20no%%202%%20uses%%20of%%20the%%20verb%%20'to%%20say'%%20in%%20gahuku.pdf
  8. A Gahuku-Yaweyuha Comparative Grammar
    Ellis W. Deibler. 1976. "A Gahuku-Yaweyuha Comparative Grammar." 34. Online: http://www-01.sil.org/pacific/png/pubs/928474531084/Yaweyuha_Gahuku_comp_gram.pdf.
    http://www-01.sil.org/pacific/png/pubs/928474531084/Yaweyuha_Gahuku_comp_gram.pdf
  9. Semantic relationships of Gahuku verbs
    Deibler, Ellis W. 1976. "Semantic Relationships of Gahuku Verbs." 48: Summer Institute of Linguistics of the University of Oklahoma.