Endangered Languages Project - Arguni

Arguni

^{[aka Argoeni]}

Classification: Austronesian

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endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Argoeni
CLASSIFICATION		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, South Halmahera-West New Guinea
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		agf
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 18th Edition” . Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig · SIL International

Endangered

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

DATE OF INFO: 2000

PLACES: Indonesia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "Papua Barat Province, Fak-Fak district; Arguni island in Maccluer gulf, off northwest coast, Bomberai peninsula."

Endangered

40 percent certain, based on the evidence available
200
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1977

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
More on Orthography: No literacy in it.

PLACES: Indonesia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Irian Jaya [Papua Barat Province]: spoken on an island in the Maccluer Gulf off the northwest coast of the Bomberai Peninsula, which is south of the Bird’s Head Peninsula.

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

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LOCATION INFORMATION

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