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ALSO KNOWN AS		Miriam, Meryam Mir, Miriam-Mir, Mer, Mir, East Torres
CLASSIFICATION		Trans-New Guinea, Trans-Fly-Bulaka River, Trans-Fly, Eastern Trans-Fly
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		ulk
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Tagota Buglial Bulgai Boigu
DOWNLOAD		As csv
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Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World” . , M. Paul Lewis · SIL International

Endangered

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320
Native speakers worldwide in 1996
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Data for the number of native speakers comes from the 1996 census.

PLACES: Australia;

DATE OF INFO: 1983

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: "As progress was made with the basic dictionary work, other projects developed from it. Some of the results of these projects will be used in educational and literacy work on Murray Island. Although the Meriam Mir language is currently not used in school on the Island, there is a move amongst the Islanders to introduce it."

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160
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 2010

Endangered

Uncertain
350
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

Uncertain
160
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 2005

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0858832917		1983	Making a Meriam Mir Dictionary	Australian Aboriginal Lexicography	19-30	Peter Austin	Pacific Linguistics		Linguistic Circle of Canberra		Patrick McConvell and Ron Day and Paul Black	Patrick McConvell, Ron Day and Paul Black. 1983. "Making a Meriam Mir Dictionary." In Australian Aboriginal Lexicography, edited by Peter Austin. 19-30. Pacific Linguistics.						"As progress was made with the basic dictionary work, other projects developed from it. Some of the results of these projects will be used in educational and literacy work on Murray Island. Although the Meriam Mir language is currently not used in school on the Island, there is a move amongst the Islanders to introduce it."
0199255911		2005	The World Atlas of Language Structures			Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer	Oxford University Press	New York				Comrie, Bernard , Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil & Martin Haspelmath (eds.). 2005. The World Atlas of Language Structures. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199255911	ll_pub								-9.91666666667,144.083333333
				Ethnologue: Languages of the World		M. Paul Lewis	SIL International	Dallas, TX		http://www.ethnologue.com/		Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)	ll_pub	320	1996	100-999	Data for the number of native speakers comes from the 1996 census.		Endangered (Uncertain)	Australia;
			Austlang: Australian Indigenous Languages Database				AIATSIS	Canberra		http://austlang.aiatsis.gov.au		AUSTLANG: Australian Indigenous Languages Database. (19 October, 2009.)	ll_pub	160		100-999			Endangered (Uncertain)
	3rd	2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger			Christopher Moseley	UNESCO Publishing	Paris		http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas		Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub	160		100-999			Endangered (Uncertain)		-9.9201,144.0472
			World Oral Literature Project							www.oralliterature.org		World Oral Literature Project. www.oralliterature.org		350		100-999			Endangered (Uncertain)

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