Endangered Languages Project - Awera

Awera

Classification: Lakes Plain

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endangered

CLASSIFICATION		Lakes Plain
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		awr
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Information from: “Australia and the Pacific” (424-557) . Stephen A Wurm (2007) Routledge

Endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
100
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1987

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

TRANSMISSION

MORE ON VITALITY

Children prefer Indonesian.

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Ansus
Indonesian

More on Orthography

No literacy in it.

PLACES: Indonesia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken at the mouth of the Wapoga River, south-west of the centre of the east coast of Cenderawasih Bay in western Irian Jaya [Indonesian Papua].

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
70
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
(S. Wurm 2000)

DATE OF INFO: 2000

PLACES: Indonesia;

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
70
Native speakers worldwide

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
70
Native speakers worldwide

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LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

-2.7084, 136.0395

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