Abaga
[alias Wagaba, Wagama, Vaga]Klassifizierung: Nuclear Trans-New Guinea
·ernsthaft gefährdet
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Ernsthaft gefährdet
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
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5
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In the 1960s, there were still about 150 speakers of it, but in 1994 only five were left.
- DATUM DER INFORMATION
- 1994
- ENTWICKLUNGSTENDENZEN BEI SPRECHERN
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- VERBREITUNG
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- ANDERE VON DER GEMEINSCHAFT GESPROCHENE SPRACHEN
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Kamano
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Benabena
- KOMMENTARE ZUM SPRACHKONTEXT
The language has been under intense pressure from Kamano.
- Rechtschreibung
No literacy
- ORTE
- Papua New Guinea
- ORTSBESCHREIBUNG
Eastern Highlands Province, eastern part of the Goroka District. Spoken north of Henganofi, around Kisi.
- WEITERE KOMMENTARE
The speakers appear to have migrated from the southern Huon Peninsula area into the Eastern Highlands where they live in the territory of the large Kamano language.