Endangered Languages Project - Mari

Mari

Classification: Sepik

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endangered

CLASSIFICATION		Sepik, Sepik Hill, Central Sepik Hill
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		mbx
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 18th Edition” . Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig · SIL International

Endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
80
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
(Wurm)

DATE OF INFO: 2000

DOMAINS OF USE

TRANSMISSION

MORE ON VITALITY

"Used by few children." "Home only."

SPEAKER ATTITUDE

"Neutral attitudes."

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Tok Pisin [tpi]

PLACES: Papua New Guinea

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "East Sepik Province, near Mari lake and on Salumei river."

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
80
Native speakers worldwide

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
80
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

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

DATE OF INFO: 1970

PLACES: Papua New Guinea

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Mari village

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LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

-9.0478, 141.8994

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