Endangered Languages Project

ALSO KNOWN AS		Mareng, Yoadabe-Watoare
CLASSIFICATION		Trans-New Guinea, Chimbu-Wahgi
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		mbw
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Eastern Maring Kambegl Karamba Timbunki Central Maring Tsuwenki
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
11,000
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers comes from SIL (1998).

			World Oral Literature Project				http://www.oralliterature.org	"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.		11,000	10000-99999		Vulnerable (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
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		2005. "The World Atlas of Language Structures." edited by Bernard Comrie et al. Oxford University Press.							-5.5,144.666666667
	16	2009	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)	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	11,000	10000-99999	Data for the number of native speakers comes from SIL (1998).	Vulnerable (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	Papua New Guinea;

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