Endangered Languages Project - Habu

Habu

^{[aka Kairui,]}

Classification: Austronesian

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threatened

ALSO KNOWN AS		Kairui
CLASSIFICATION		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central Malayo-Polynesian, Timor
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3; Glottolog
LANGUAGE CODE		hbu; habu1241
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger” . Christopher Moseley (ed.) (2010) UNESCO Publishing

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,000
Native speakers worldwide

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2700
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
2010 Census information

DATE OF INFO: 2010

Scripts (Writing system): Latin

PLACES: East Timor

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,260
Native speakers worldwide

Threatened

40 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,000
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1981

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: It has many loan words from the neighbouring Papuan Timor-Alor-Pantar languages, which put pressure on it.
More on Orthography: No literacy in it.

PLACES: Timor-Leste

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken in the central highlands southeast of Dili and southwest of Baucau on East Timor Island.

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Information from: “Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger” . Christopher Moseley (ed.) (2010) UNESCO Publishing