Sukur
Sakun; Sugur; Adikimmu Sukur; Gemasakun; Sakul;
Afro-Asiatic; Chadic; Biu-Mandara
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2009
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Nigeria
10.735838, 13.567772
"Spoken by approximately 15,000 people at the UNESCO World Heritage Sukur Cultural Landscape."
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"Spoken by approximately 15,000 people at the UNESCO World Heritage Sukur Cultural Landscape."
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The number 15,000 is taken from the 15th edition of Ethnologue (2005). "The number 20,000 is based on a survey conducted in 2010 by the District Head in Mataka. This number still does not reflect the number of Sakun speakers living down in Sukur Settlement adjacent Madagali. Estimates are as high as 27,000 total native Sakun speakers. As with many languages in the area, the estimated number of speakers does not reflect those speaking Sakun as a second language. Just as many Sakun speaker [sic] other minority languages in the area, many non-Sakun may still speak Sakun."
2014
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Nigeria
10.73, 13.57
Mandara mountains
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Hausa, Fulfulde, English, Margi, Kamwe, Wula
church (Hausa), education (Hausa and English)
"Based on an informal survey (the participants in the documentation project) of 200 Sakun speakers, Sakun speak between 2 and 7 languages with the majority speaking Hausa in addition to Sakun."
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Nigeria
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"North tip Adamawa state, Michika LGA, Mandara Mountains."
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"North tip Adamawa state, Michika LGA, Mandara Mountains."
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- 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 University2012. "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."
- 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.)http://www.ethnologue.com/
- "Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Grammar of Sakun (Sukur)" NSF DEL AbstractFrajzyngier, Zygmunt. 2009. ""Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Grammar of Sakun (Sukur)" NSF DEL Abstract." Online: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0921714&WT.z_pims_id=12816.http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0921714&WT.z_pims_id=12816
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