Endangered Languages Project - Hewa

Hewa

^{[aka Sisimin, Umairof, Yoliapi]}

Classification: Sepik

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threatened

ALSO KNOWN AS		Sisimin, Umairof, Yoliapi
CLASSIFICATION		Sepik, Sepik Hill, Western Sepik Hill
ORTHOGRAPHY		Latin
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		ham
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Eastern Central Western
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Hewa phonemes: a tentative statement” . Vollrath, Paul W. (1985) , Clifton, John M. · Summer Institute of Linguistics

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2,000
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1980

PLACES: Papua New Guinea

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "south of the Central Ranges in an east-west band along the last 100 kilometres of the Lagaip RIver and its tributaries"

Vulnerable

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2,150
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"290 in Yoliapi (1982 SIL). 1,600 monolinguals."

DATE OF INFO: 1986

DOMAINS OF USE

TRANSMISSION

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"Use of Hewa is the norm. All domains. All ages."

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

una [duc]
English [eng]
Ipili [ipi]
Oksapmin [opm]
Tok Pisin [tpi]

Scripts (Writing system)

Latin

PLACES: Papua New Guinea

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "Southern Highlands Province, Koroba district; Enga Province, Lagaip district; Sandaun Province, Telefomin district; Lagaip river area, mountains north of Duna [duc] and Ipili [ipi] language areas; south of Lagaip river northward to Central range high peaks (political and physical boundary between Sepik region and the highlands)."

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,500
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"Population estimate from Steadman (1971)."

DATE OF INFO: 1971

PLACES: Papua New Guinea

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Morobanmin, Remban, and Yoliapi villages, and in "other settlements in Western Highlands District"

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Information from: “Glottolog 2.3” . Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin & Nordhoff, Sebastian (2014)