Endangered Languages Project - Wab

Wab

^{[aka Som,]}

Classification: Austronesian

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endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Som
CLASSIFICATION		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, North New Guinea
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		wab
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
120
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Speaker number data: (S. Wurm 2000)

PLACES: Papua New Guinea;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Madang Province, Huon Peninsula north coast, next to Saidor, Wab and Saui villages.

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
142
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
120
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
142
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1977

MORE ON VITALITY

The language is under pressure from the neighbouring larger closely related Biliau (or Awad Bing) language, and especially from Tok Pisin because of its nearness to Saidor.

More on Orthography

No literacy

PLACES: Papua New Guinea

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Madang Province. Spoken on the north coast of the Huon Peninsula, near Saidor.

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