Endangered Languages Project

ALSO KNOWN AS		Admiralitäts-inseln
CLASSIFICATION		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Admiralty Islands
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		ler
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
250
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
250
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers comes from SIL (1982). Ethnic population is from D. Tryon (2000).

		World Oral Literature Project				http://www.oralliterature.org	"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.			250	100-999		Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
		Glottolog				http://www.glottolog.org/glottolog/	"Glottolog." Online: http://www.glottolog.org/glottolog/.								-2.33, 147.74
16	2009	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)	M. Paul Lewis	SIL International	Dallas, TX	http://www.ethnologue.com/	Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)	ll_pub	250	250	100-999	Data for the number of native speakers comes from SIL (1982). Ethnic population is from D. Tryon (2000).	Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	Papua New Guinea;

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