Endangered Languages Project - Lolak

Lolak

Classification: Austronesian

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severely endangered

CLASSIFICATION		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Greater Central Philippine, Gorontalo-Mongondow
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		llq
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MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Australia and the Pacific” (424-557) . Stephen A Wurm (2007) Routledge

Severely endangered

40 percent certain, based on the evidence available
10-99
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
It has heavily borrowed lexical items from the very large Mongondow language.

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: It is completely surrounded by Mongondow, which is the second language of all Lolak speakers and puts great pressure on Lolak.
More on Orthography: No literacy in it.

PLACES: Indonesia: Sulawesi Province

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken on the eastern part of the north coast of the northeastern peninsula of Sulawesi.

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
3,000
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
3,000 (2004 SIL)

DATE OF INFO: 2004

PLACES: Indonesia;

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
50
Native speakers worldwide

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
5,000
Native speakers worldwide

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