Endangered Languages Project - Nila

Nila

Classification: Austronesian

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threatened

CLASSIFICATION		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Timor
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		nil
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Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,800
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers comes from SIL (1989).

MORE ON VITALITY

The number of speakers is decreasing.

PLACES: Indonesia; Australia;

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,800
Native speakers worldwide

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,800
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

40 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,800
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
There are likely to be fewer now as a result of their transmigration.

DATE OF INFO: 1989

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
More on Orthography: No literacy in it.

PLACES: Indonesia: Maluku Province

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Now spoken in a transmigration area on south-central Seram Island. They came from Nila Island, north of Babar Island, in south Central Maluku, but have been moved to Seram Island, because of volcanic activity on their island

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