Endangered Languages Project - Yambes

Yambes

Classification: Torricelli

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endangered

CLASSIFICATION		Torricelli, Kombian
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		ymb
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		East Yambes West Yambes
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Sepik languages: checklist and preliminary classification” . Laycock, Donald C. (1973) , Wurm, Stephen A. · Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, Department of Linguistics

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
860
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1970

PLACES: Papua New Guinea

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: 4 villages: Yambes, Sahik, Sumul, and Wahlen.

Threatened

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,080
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
0 monolinguals. (SIL)

DATE OF INFO: 2003

TRANSMISSION

MORE ON VITALITY

"Mainly older adults."

SPEAKER ATTITUDE

"Language loss concerns adults."

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Tok Pisin [tpi]

PLACES: Papua New Guinea

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "East Sepik Province, Dreikikkir district, northwest of Wom, east and southeast of Kombio. 4 villages."

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Information from: “Glottolog 2.3” . Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin & Nordhoff, Sebastian (2014)