信息不完整 “Four undocumented languages of Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia” . Laura Arnold (2020) , Peter K. Austin · ELPublishing
濒危
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.
信息日期
2017
使用领域
使用者趋势
传承情况
该群体使用的其他语言
Papuan Malay
Ma'ya
Biak
Seget
Javanese
语言环境评论
There is significant language shift to Papuan Malay by the generations born after 1990. The villages are multiethnic and multilingual.
地点
Spoken in the Raja Ampat archipelago, off the western tip of Bird's Head peninsula of New Guinea, West Papua province, Indonesia