• Stark gefährdet

  100 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• ~150

  Muttersprachler weltweit

DATUM DER INFORMATION

2020

NUTZUNGSBEREICHE

ENTWICKLUNGSTENDENZEN BEI SPRECHERN

VERBREITUNG

MEHR ZU SPRACHBESTÄNDIGKEIT

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

SPRECHEREINSTELLUNG

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

ANDERE VON DER GEMEINSCHAFT GESPROCHENE SPRACHEN

• Papuan Malay

• Biak

KOMMENTARE ZUM SPRACHKONTEXT

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

ORTE

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