Informationen von: “Four undocumented languages of Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia” . Laura Arnold (2020) , Peter K. Austin · ELPublishing
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100 percent certain, based on the evidence available
fewer than 3,391
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.
DATUM DER INFORMATION
2017
NUTZUNGSBEREICHE
ENTWICKLUNGSTENDENZEN BEI SPRECHERN
VERBREITUNG
ANDERE VON DER GEMEINSCHAFT GESPROCHENE SPRACHEN
Papuan Malay
Ma'ya
Biak
Seget
Javanese
KOMMENTARE ZUM SPRACHKONTEXT
There is significant language shift to Papuan Malay by the generations born after 1990. The villages are multiethnic and multilingual.
ORTE
Spoken in the Raja Ampat archipelago, off the western tip of Bird's Head peninsula of New Guinea, West Papua province, Indonesia