Endangered Languages Project - Itene

Itene

^{[aka Iteneo, Iténez, Moré]}

Classification: Chapacuran

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severely endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Iteneo, Iténez, Moré, More, Maré, Iten, Guarayo, Itenez
CLASSIFICATION		Chapacuran, Central Chapacuran
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		ite
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking” (167-234) . Crevels, Mily (2012) , Lyle Campbell and Veronica Grondona · Mouton de Gruyter

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
44
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
64

Dormant
No known speakers.
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
108
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the ethnic population is from Adelaar (2000).

75 in Bolivia (Crevels 2007). Population total all countries: 87. Ethnic population: 200 (Crevels 2007) (2013).

PLACES: Bolivia;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: North central Beni Department at junction of Mamoré and Iténez rivers.

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
76
Native speakers worldwide

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
86
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
200
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
According to Angenot de Lima (2002), twelve out of eighty-six speakers and thirty out of 200 members of the ethnic group live in Brazil, whereas the majority of speakers and members of the ethnic group live in Bolivia.

DATE OF INFO: 2002

PLACES: Bolivia and Brazil

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LOCATION INFORMATION

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