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The Uncunwee (Ghulfan) Documentation Project: Linking language documentation to language conservation

Robert Williams, Angelika Jakobi and Jade Comfort. 2009. "The Uncunwee (Ghulfan) Documentation Project: Linking Language Documentation To Language Conservation." In Proceedings of Conference on language documentation & linguistic theory 2, edited by Peter Austin et al. London, School of Oriental and African Studies. Online: http://www.uncuproject.com/ldlt2_williams_doc_cons.pdf.

Endangered
100 percent certain, based on the evidence available
About Vitality Level
<16,000
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speaker Number Trends

Speaker Number Trend 3

Only about half of community members speak the language. Speaker numbers are decreasing steadily, but not at an accelerated pace.

3
Domains of Use

Domain Of Use 3

Used mainly in the home and/or with family, but remains the primary language of these domains for many community members.

3
Transmission

Transmission 3

Some adults in the community are speakers, but the language is not spoken by children.

3
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Speakers
Native or fluent speakers:
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Second-language speakers and learners
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Semi-speakers or rememberers
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Children:
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Young adults
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Older adults
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Elders
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Ethnic or community population
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Year information was gathered
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Comments on speakers
"Arabic, as the result of a long-standing policy of Arabization by the Khartoum government, dominates in these areas... Even in the remotest villages, there is now a growing trend among young mothers, themselves schooled in Arabic, to raise their children as monolingual Arabic speakers. This behavior seems to be based on a shared ingrained and perhaps subconscious belief among younger adults that Uncunwee is a tribal language that is inferior to Arabic, thus marking its users with a social stigma."

Location and Context
Countries
Sudan
Location Description

"Spoken by the Uncu, an agrarian people living in the Uncu area, located south of the town of Dilling in the Nuba Mountains area of the Sudanese state of South Kordofan."

Government Support
None
Institutional Support
No results found.
Speakers' Attitude
Mixed/negative
Other Languages Used By The Community
Arabic
Number of Other Language Speakers:
Most young people
Domains of Other Languages:
Schools

Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
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Writing system:
None; orthography development in progress
Other writing systems used:
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Comments on writing systems:
"Since Uncunwee is a non-written language, there has also been no formal teaching of the language or the culture in the schools."

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