• Severely endangered

  100 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• ~150

  Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO

2020

DOMAINS OF USE

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

TRANSMISSION

MORE ON VITALITY

Batta is used on a daily basis by those born before 1980.

SPEAKER ATTITUDE

Batta speakers are enthusiastic about collaborating on documentation of their language. No one alive knows how to sing the traditional Batta 'wor' songs anymore.

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

• Papuan Malay

• Biak

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

About half of their neighbors speak Biak due to migration and intermarriage.

PLACES

Spoken in the villages of Yenenas, Weyman, and Wailebet on the south coast of Batanta Island off the western tip of Bird's Head Island, West Papua Province, Indonesia