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Mander

Classification: Orya-Tor

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severely endangered

CLASSIFICATION		Orya-Tor, Tor
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		mqr
DOWNLOAD		As csv
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Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
20
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers comes from SIL (1991).

PLACES: Indonesia;

Critically endangered

40 percent certain, based on the evidence available
20
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Some of the Foyu speakers have shifted to it. Speakers intermarry with the speakers of the much larger Berik language who are their western neighbours, and speak Berik as a second language. The speakers are nomadic. The language is now seriously endangered.

DATE OF INFO: 1991

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
More on Orthography: No literacy in it.

PLACES: Indonesia: Irian Jaya

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken inland in the central north coast area, on the Upper Bu River, a tributary of the Upper Tor River.

Severely endangered

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

Severely endangered

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

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