Endangered Languages Project - Aputai

Aputai

^{[aka Ilputih, Opotai, Tutunohan]}

Classification: Austronesian

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endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Ilputih, Opotai, Tutunohan
CLASSIFICATION		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Timor
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		apx
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Lurang Ilputih Welemur
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Australia and the Pacific” (424-557) . Stephen A Wurm (2007) Routledge

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
150
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1990

MORE ON VITALITY

One of its dialects is extinct.

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Talur
Indonesian

More on Orthography

No literacy in it.

PLACES: Indonesia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Maluku Province: spoken on the north central and south central coasts of Wetar Island, north of northeast Timor Island.

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
120
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
150
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
150
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
(Hinton 2000)

DATE OF INFO: 2000

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

PLACES: Indonesia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "Southwest Maluku Province, 2 villages. North central Wetar island, Banda Sea coast, Ilputih village; south central Wetar, Wetar strait coast, Lurang village."

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LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

-7.6511, 126.4086

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Information from: “Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger” . Christopher Moseley (ed.) (2010) UNESCO Publishing