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Native Speakers Worldwide

2,000

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A grammar of Baba Malay with sociophonetic considerations
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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

2,000

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers

No data

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

2,000

Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

All

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2014

Location and Context

Countries

Singapore; Malaysia

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Location description

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Government support

No

Institutional support

No

Speakers’s attitudes

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Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

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More on writing systems

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Other languages used

English, Malay, Mandarin Chinese, Hokkien

Domains of other languages

All

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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

<15,000

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Ethnic Population

~300000

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

There were 10000 speakers in Singapore from an ethnic population of 250000 to 400000 (Pakir 1986). Ethnologue postulates that there is an ethnic population of 5000 people in Malaysia.

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Malaysia; Singapore

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Other languages used

Southern Min, Standard Malay, English, Mandarin

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Coordinates

1.75, 103.08

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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)
    Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)
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    http://www.glottolog.org/glottolog/
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  7. A Description of Nineteenth Century Baba Malay: A Malay Variety Influenced by Language Shift
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