Endangered Languages Project - Toto

Toto

^{[aka Tōtō]}

Classification: Sino-Tibetan

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threatened

ALSO KNOWN AS		Tōtō
CLASSIFICATION		Sino-Tibetan, Dhimalish
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		txo
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Personal Communication on Toto” . Toby Anderson (2013)

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,400
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Toby Anderson is a linguist who works with the Toto people. He bases this speaker number estimate off of communication with Dhaniram Toto, the president of Toto Kalyan Samity, the Committee for the Preservation of Toto Language and Culture.

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
20,000
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Speaker number data: (King 1994)

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PLACES: India

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: West Bengal, Jalpaiguri District, Subhapara, Dhunchipara, Panchayatpara hillocks on Indo-Bhutan border, Totopara village

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,000
Native speakers worldwide

Vulnerable

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

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<1,000
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"Just under a thousand speakers known in 1994."

DATE OF INFO: 1994

MORE ON VITALITY

"Declining number. Severely endangered."

PLACES: India

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "West Bengal, Jalpāīguḍī district, near Bhutanese border."

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