Endangered Languages Project - Kire

Kire

^{[aka Gire, Giri, Kire-Puire]}

Classification: Lower Sepik-Ramu

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threatened

ALSO KNOWN AS		Gire, Giri, Kire-Puire
CLASSIFICATION		Lower Sepik-Ramu, Ramu, Lower Ramu
ORTHOGRAPHY		Latin
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		geb
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Nasalisation in Kire” (31-44) . Pryor, David and John M. Clifton (1987) , Clifton, John M. · Summer Institute of Linguistics

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,900
Native speakers worldwide
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"spoken by approximately 1900 people"

PLACES: Papua New Guinea

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Madang Province

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,652
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1970

PLACES: Papua New Guinea

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: 10 villages: Birap, Giri No. 1, Giri No. 2, Kominung, Minu, Pir No. 1, Pir No. 2, Temnu, Tung, and Warinung.

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2,420
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
(SIL)

DATE OF INFO: 2003

Scripts (Writing system): Latin

PLACES: Papua New Guinea

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "Madang Province, lower Ramu, Garati village area."

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