Endangered Languages Project - Tanahmerah

Tanahmerah

^{[aka Sumeri]}

Classification: Isolate

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endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Sumeri
CLASSIFICATION		Isolate, Pacific
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		tcm
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		Not to be confused with several other places and languages in Indonesian Papua also called tanahmerah (literally 'brown earth' in Malay)

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Information from: “Language isolates in the New Guinea region” . Harald Hammarström (2017) , Lyle Campbell, Thomas Dougherty, and Alexander D. Smith · London: Routledge

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
500
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"The language is typically listed as having around 500 speakers but no researcher is recorded to have surveyed the speech community in situ."

PLACES: Indonesia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: East Nusantara

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Tanahmerah along the Gondu and Bapai rivers of the northeast of the Bomberai peninsula

PLACES: Indonesia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: West Papua

LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

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