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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.
FECHA DE INFORMACIÓN
2017
DOMINIOS DE USO
TENDENCIAS DE HABLANTES
TRANSMISIÓN
OTRAS LENGUAS UTILIZADAS POR LA COMUNIDAD
Papuan Malay
Ma'ya
Biak
Seget
Javanese
COMENTARIOS SOBRE CONTEXTO DE LA LENGUA
There is significant language shift to Papuan Malay by the generations born after 1990. The villages are multiethnic and multilingual.
LUGARES
Spoken in the Raja Ampat archipelago, off the western tip of Bird's Head peninsula of New Guinea, West Papua province, Indonesia