ELP ID
31702
ELP Language
Marori
Speaker Number
100-999
Ethnic Population
119
Public Comment
"Marori language is highly endangered. There are several fluent speakers left, out of a total of 52 families or 119 people. Marori people typically have mixed marriages with Marind and non-Papuan Indonesians such as the Tanimbar people and currently the Javanese. The sociolinguistic survey carried out in 2000 (Sohn, Lebold & Kriens 2009) reports the precarious nature of the language, which I further confirmed when I did my fieldwork in 2008 and 2009. Young Maroris no longer actively speak their language. They may, however, still have passive competence of varying degrees. They almost all speak Indonesian or the local variety of Indonesian/Malay, and also Marind." (p. 151)
Source
Projecting morphology and agreement in Marori, an isolate of southern New Guinea
Preferred
Off
Speaker Number Text
<119
Speaker Number Range
100-999