Endangered Languages Project - Gaikundi

Gaikundi

^{[aka Gaikunti, Gaikwundi, Sawos]}

Classification: Sepik

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endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Gaikunti, Gaikwundi, Sawos
CLASSIFICATION		Sepik, Ndu
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		gbf
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		Gaikundi is included within Laycock's (1973) "Sawos language", which he admits may consist of multiple languages, noting that "no real dialect surveys have been undertaken". The classifications here follow the survey work of Staalsen (1975).

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Information from: “The Languages of the Sawos Region (New Guinea)” (6-16) . Staalsen, Philip (1975)

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~650
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1972

PLACES: Papua New Guinea

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: East Sepik Province, Sawos region: Wereman, Yanget, and Vagipu villages.

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,200
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 2000

Scripts (Writing system): Latin

PLACES: Papua New Guinea

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "East Sepik Province, Ambunti District, Sepik Plains south of Maprik, east of Pagwi."

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