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ALSO KNOWN AS		Barue, "Barawahing", Namatalaki
CLASSIFICATION		Timor-Alor-Pantar
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		abz
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Atimelang Kobola Alakaman
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Information from: “A Grammar of Abui: A Papuan Language of Alor” . František Kratochvíl (2007)

Threatened

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available
16,000
Native speakers worldwide

DOMAINS OF USE

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

TRANSMISSION

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The linguistic situation varies from village to village. Those that reside closer to the shore and coastal markets use Malay with much greater frequency than those that reside further inland. In coastal areas, Abui children are brought up speaking Malay, and they do not learn Abui until they are older. The opposite is true in inland communities, where children are often monolingual in Abui until about age five, when they learn Malay.

GOVERNMENT SUPPORT

No government support

INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT

No institutional support

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Malay

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

Abui is banned in schools. Here, the language of instruction is strictly Malay.

PLACES: Indonesia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Alor island

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
16,000
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
16,000
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(Wurm and Hattori 1981)

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
16,000
Native speakers worldwide

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

PLACES: Alor island, southeastern Indonesia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: central Alor

	LOT Dissertation Series		2007	A Grammar of Abui: A Papuan Language of Alor			157		Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden		František Kratochvíl	Kratochvíl, František. A Grammar of Abui: A Papuan Language of Alor. PhD thesis, Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, 2007.	HHOLD		16,000	10000-99999		Malay	No government support	Abui is banned in schools. Here, the language of instruction is strictly Malay.	No institutional support	Threatened (100 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	11	The linguistic situation varies from village to village. Those that reside closer to the shore and coastal markets use Malay with much greater frequency than those that reside further inland. In coastal areas, Abui children are brought up speaking Malay, and they do not learn Abui until they are older. The opposite is true in inland communities, where children are often monolingual in Abui until about age five, when they learn Malay.	13	11	Indonesia	Alor island
0199255911			2005	The World Atlas of Language Structures	Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer	Oxford University Press		New York				2005. "The World Atlas of Language Structures." edited by Bernard Comrie et al. Oxford University Press.																	-8.25,124.666666667
			2004	"Documentation of 3-4 Endangered Non-Austronesian Languages of Alor and Pantar, Eastern Indonesia" HRELP Abstract						http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=43	Baird, Louise	Baird, Louise. 2004. ""Documentation of 3-4 Endangered Non-Austronesian Languages of Alor and Pantar, Eastern Indonesia" HRELP Abstract." Online: http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=43.			16,000	10000-99999		local variety of Malay				Vulnerable (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)					Alor island, southeastern Indonesia	central Alor
		16	2009	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)	M. Paul Lewis	SIL International		Dallas, TX		http://www.ethnologue.com/		Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)	ll_pub	16,000	16,000	10000-99999	(Wurm and Hattori 1981)					Vulnerable (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)

Abui

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Threatened

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available

16,000

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

16,000

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

16,000

Discussion

Abui

Language metadata

Language information by source

Threatened

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available

16,000

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

16,000

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

16,000

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