Salawati
[aka "Maden"]Classification: Austronesian
·endangered
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Endangered
100 percent certain, based on the evidence available
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fewer than 3,391
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The population of the 13 villages is 3,391 (as of the 2017 government census). Those villages include many people who speak their own mother tongues, not Salawati, as well as Salawati children who are not learning their parents' language.
- DATE OF INFO
- 2017
- DOMAINS OF USE
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- SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
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- TRANSMISSION
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- OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
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Papuan Malay
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Ma'ya
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Biak
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Seget
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Javanese
- LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS
There is significant language shift to Papuan Malay by the generations born after 1990. The villages are multiethnic and multilingual.
- PLACES
- Spoken in the Raja Ampat archipelago, off the western tip of Bird's Head peninsula of New Guinea, West Papua province, Indonesia