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Classification: Trans-New Guinea
·severely endangered
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Trans-New Guinea, Finisterre-Huon |
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Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
Information from: “Australasia and the Pacific” (425-577) . Stephen Wurm (2007) , Christopher Moseley · Routledge
In 1978, eighty-eight speakers were reported. Recent reports mention eighty.
It is under pressure from large neighbouring languages, especially the related Wantoat, its western neighbour, and of Tok Pisin.
No literacy
Morobe Province. Spoken in the northern part of the western end of the Huon Peninsula, on the middle Som River, a tributary of the Uruwa River, east of the Wantoat settlement.
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SOURCE: “Australasia and the Pacific” (425-577) . Stephen Wurm (2007) , Christopher Moseley · Routledge |
| 3rd | 2010 | Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger | UNESCO Publishing | Paris | http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas | Christopher Moseley (ed.) | Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.) | ll_pub | 80 | 10-99 | Severely Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available) | -6.1296,146.4642 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007 | Australasia and the Pacific | Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages | 425-577 | Christopher Moseley | Routledge | London and New York | Stephen Wurm | Stephen Wurm. 2007. "Australasia and the Pacific." In Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by Christopher Moseley. 425-577. Routledge. | ~80 | 10-99 | In 1978, eighty-eight speakers were reported. Recent reports mention eighty. | Severely Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available) | It is under pressure from large neighbouring languages, especially the related Wantoat, its western neighbour, and of Tok Pisin. | Papua New Guinea | Morobe Province. Spoken in the northern part of the western end of the Huon Peninsula, on the middle Som River, a tributary of the Uruwa River, east of the Wantoat settlement. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Oral Literature Project | http://www.oralliterature.org | "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org. | 80 | 10-99 | Severely Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | 80 | 10-99 | Speaker number data: (S. Wurm 2000) | Severely Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available) | Papua New Guinea; | Morobe Province |