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Native Speakers Worldwide

500-1,000

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Language Information By Source

Field trip to record the status of some little-known Nigerian languages
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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

500-1,000

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

1999

Location and Context

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Location description

Barkul village, Plateau State, Nigeria

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Other writing systems

Barkul village, Plateau State, Nigeria

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Other languages used

Hausa

Domains of other languages

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More on context

"All the other villages in this area speak varieties of Kulere, a Chadic language. [...] Hausa is widespread and eliciting the wordlist suggested that younger speakers had a tendency to replace some items with their Hausa equivalent."

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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. Field trip to record the status of some little-known Nigerian languages
    Blench, R. (1999). Field trip to record the status of some little-known Nigerian languages. Ogmios Newsletter, 11-14.
    http://www.ogmios.org/ogmios/Ogmios_011.pdf