ELP ID
25247
ELP Language
Motlav
Speaker Number
1000-9999
Public Comment
"Mwotlap is currently thriving, with as many as 2,100 speakers of all ages... Volow can now be considered extinct, since its last fluent speaker (Wanhan) died in 1986... it is still remembered today, at least passively, by its 'last hearer' (Evans 2010: 209), Wanhan's son Wolman."
Source
Social ecology and language history in the northern Vanuatu linkage: A tale of divergence and convergence
Preferred
On
Speaker Number Text
2,100
Speaker Number Range
1000-9999