• En grand danger

  100 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• ~150

  Locuteurs natifs dans le monde

DATE OF INFO

2020

DOMAINES D'UTILISATION

TENDANCES AU NIVEAU DES LOCUTEURS

TRANSMISSION

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

ATTITUDE DES LOCUTEURS

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

AUTRES LANGUES PARLÉES PAR LA COMMUNAUTÉ

• Papuan Malay

• Biak

COMMENTAIRES SUR LE CONTEXTE DE LA LANGUE

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