• Endangered

  20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 610

  Native speakers worldwide
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  This estimate is a combination of the speaker numbers for Sangke (200, as cited in Galis 1955) and Wutung (410).

DATE OF INFO

1955, 1970

• Endangered

  20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 900

  Native speakers worldwide
• MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS

  (SIL)

DATE OF INFO

2003

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

• Skou [sko]

PLACES

Papua New Guinea

LOCATION DESCRIPTION

Musu and Wutung villages

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS

Laycock includes a separate languages "Sangke", which, based on data from Galis (1955), he writes is spoken in three villages in West Irian (modern day Papua Province), Indonesia: Njao-Nemo, Sangke, and Kofo. But apparently these populations have moved across the border into the present-day Papua New Guinean village of Nyao (Donohue 2004).