Awar
Classification: Lower Sepik-Ramu
·severely endangered
Classification: Lower Sepik-Ramu
·severely endangered
Lower Sepik-Ramu, Ramu, Lower Ramu |
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Information from: “A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Lower Ramu Languages of Papua New Guinea (Awar [aya], Bosmun [bqs], Kayan [kct], and Marangis [wax])” . Paris, Brian (2015) SIL International
1,153
The estimated population for Awar village is 601; the estimated population for Nubia village is 317; and the estimated population for Sisimagum village is 235 (not including immigrants from other villages).
"[A]ll interactions the people have with their children are exclusively in Tok Pisin. ... [t]he community at large rarely uses Awar in any domain. The ability to hear and speak the language still resides in most of the grandparent generation and some of the parent generation, but regular use of the language has died out."
Tok Pisin [tpi]
On the north coast near the border of Madang and East Speik Provinces and the Ramu River: Awar, Nubia, and Sisimagum villages.
Information from: “Glottolog 2.3” . Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin & Nordhoff, Sebastian (2014)
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
Awar, Nubia, and Sisinangan villages
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 18th Edition” . Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig · SIL International
"Madang Province, Bogia district, Hansa bay coast. 3 villages."