Endangered Languages Project

ALSO KNOWN AS		Amahei
CLASSIFICATION		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central Maluku, Nunusaku
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		amq
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Makariki Rutah Soahuku
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
50
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers comes from SIL (1987).

		3rd	2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger				UNESCO Publishing	Paris	http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas	Christopher Moseley (ed.)	Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub	30		10-99		Severely Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)			-3.3352, 128.9314
070071197X	3	1	2007	Australia and the Pacific	Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages	424-557		Routledge	Abingdon		Stephen A Wurm	Wurm, Stephen A. 2007. Australia and the Pacific. In Christopher Moseley, Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, 1 edn., 424-557. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 070071197X	ll_pub	50	1987	10-99		Critically Endangered (40 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	15
				World Oral Literature Project						http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.		50		10-99		Severely Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
		16	2009	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)			M. Paul Lewis	SIL International	Dallas, TX	http://www.ethnologue.com/		Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)	ll_pub	50		10-99	Data for the number of native speakers comes from SIL (1987).	Severely Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)		Indonesia

Amahai