As informações estão incompletas “Four undocumented languages of Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia” . Laura Arnold (2020) , Peter K. Austin · ELPublishing
Em risco
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.
DATA DAS INFORMAÇÕES
2017
DOMÍNIOS DE USO
TENDÊNCIAS DOS FALANTES
TRANSMISSÃO
OUTROS IDIOMAS USADOS PELA COMUNIDADE
Papuan Malay
Ma'ya
Biak
Seget
Javanese
COMENTÁRIOS SOBRE O CONTEXTO DO IDIOMA
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