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  Auyi, Awye, Awje, Awji, Nyao, Njao, Beapawa, Embiawo
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              Endangered
      
  
40 percent certain, based on the evidence available
400
Native Speakers Worldwide
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                    Only about half of community members speak the language. Speaker numbers are decreasing steadily, but not at an accelerated pace.
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Bibliography
Bibliography of Vitality: 
   
    
              Wurm, Stephen A. 2007. Australia and the Pacific. In Christopher  Moseley, Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, 1 edn., 424-557. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 070071197X
      
  
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              2005. "The World Atlas of Language Structures."  edited by Bernard Comrie et al. Oxford University Press.
      
  
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              Wurm, Stephen A. 2007. Australia and the Pacific. In Christopher  Moseley, Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, 1 edn., 424-557. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 070071197X