Endangered Languages Project - Bedoanas

Bedoanas

Classification: Austronesian

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endangered

CLASSIFICATION		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, South Halmahera-West New Guinea
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3; Glottolog
LANGUAGE CODE		bed; bedo1237
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
180
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
180
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
250
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1977

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

PLACES: Indonesia: Irian Jaya

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken on the northwest coast of the Bomberai Peninsula, which is south of the Bird’s Head.

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
180
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers comes from S. Wurm (2000).

PLACES: Indonesia;

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