Endangered Languages Project - Ik

Ik

^{[aka Icietot, Teuso, Teuth]}

Classification: Kuliak

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vulnerable

ALSO KNOWN AS		Icietot, Teuso, Teuth, Ngulak
CLASSIFICATION		Kuliak
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		ikx
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Information from: “Ik Language Assessment Report: Kaabong District Uganda” . Sabine Wiedemann and Prossy Nannyombi (2007)

Vulnerable

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~16,000
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 2004

DOMAINS OF USE
SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
TRANSMISSION
SPEAKER ATTITUDE: Positive
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: "All interviews showed that the Ik are very proud of their language; they expressed a positive attitude towards their mother tongue"

PLACES: Karamoja region of northeastern Uganda

Vulnerable

40 percent certain, based on the evidence available
10,000
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
10,000
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
10,000, increasing. Ethnic population: 10,000

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

PLACES: Uganda;

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2,000
Native speakers worldwide

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2,000
Native speakers worldwide

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
4,000
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"Many figures are provided beginning with Turnbull (1967:64) 1,300 people. The Red Cross reported 2,696 people living in the 'Kamion/Teuso Parish' in 1982. Heine also reports more than 3,000 in 1983."

DATE OF INFO: 1996

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "They inhabit roughly fifteen villages in north-eastern Uganda, strung along the escarpment between Timu Forest in the south and Kidepo National Park in the North."

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Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press