Endangered Languages Project - Boano (Sulawesi, Indonesia)

Boano (Sulawesi, Indonesia)

^{[aka Bolano, Djidja,]}

Classification: Austronesian

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threatened

ALSO KNOWN AS		Bolano, Djidja
CLASSIFICATION		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Celebic, Tomini-Tolitoli
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		bzl
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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

Threatened

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2,350
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
2700

DATE OF INFO: 1990

DOMAINS OF USE

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

TRANSMISSION

MORE ON VITALITY

Language of daily use in the village where it is spoken, but children receive their primary education in Indonesian.

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Indonesian

PLACES: Indonesia: Sulawesi Province

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Sulawesi, on the south coast of the northeastern peninsula of Sulawesi, in its extreme western part where it joins the narrow neck which links the peninsula to the bulk of Sulawesi, in a single village with about 2,700 inha- bitants, near Borneo.

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2,700
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers comes from Himmelmann (2001).

PLACES: Indonesia;

Threatened

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2700
Native speakers worldwide

DOMAINS OF USE
SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
TRANSMISSION
SPEAKER ATTITUDE: Generally negative.
GOVERNMENT SUPPORT: No government support.
INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT: No institutional support
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

PLACES: Indonesia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken on Sulawesi, in and around Bolano.

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2,700
Native speakers worldwide

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Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International