Endangered Languages Project - Anem

Anem

^{[aka Anêm]}

Classification: Isolate

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endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Anêm
CLASSIFICATION		Isolate, Pacific
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		anz
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		"Some hypotheses relate Anem to other languages of New Britain, especially with Pete-Ata, and the East Papuan islands based on typology or pronouns (see Dunn et al. 2005a,b, Ross 2001, Thurston 1992) but the resemblances are much too minor to conclude a genealogical relation." (Hammarström, forthcoming)

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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
843
Native speakers worldwide

MORE ON VITALITY

"...'Vital despite the highly multilingual nature of the Anem people and the addition of Tok Pisin to domains that used to be the sole territory of Anem' (Carteret al. 2012:3)"

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: "...four villages on the north coast approximately 45 kilometres east of Cape Gloucester in West New Britain, Papua New Guinea (Carter et al. 2012)"

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