Endangered Languages Project - Sulka

Sulka

Classification: Isolate

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threatened

CLASSIFICATION		Isolate, Pacific
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		sua
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		"At present Sulka has not been demonstrated to form bona-fide family with any of the other languages of New Britain (Reesink 2005:145-146, Stebbins 2009, Dunn et al. 2005a, Dunn et al. 2005b)." (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

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2,500
Native speakers worldwide

PLACES: Papua New Guinea

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Along the Wide Bay coast of East New Britain

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