Endangered Languages Project - Sengo

Sengo

^{[aka Manambu]}

Classification: Sepik

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endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Manambu
CLASSIFICATION		Sepik, Ndu
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		spk
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		Laycock (1973) includes the village of Sengo as potentially Manambu-speaking, but, following Staalsen (1975), Sengo is treated as a separate language in the Catalogue of Endangered Languages.

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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
~300
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1972

PLACES: Papua New Guinea

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: East Sepik Province, Sawos region: Sengo village (also called Nimbung)

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
520
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
(SIL)

DATE OF INFO: 2003

PLACES: Papua New Guinea

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "East Sepik Province, Ambunti district, west-northwest of Pagwi, Sengo village."

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