Endangered Languages Project - Bonggo

Bonggo

^{[aka Armopa, Bgu, Bogu]}

Classification: Austronesian

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severely endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Armopa, Bgu, Bogu, Bongo
CLASSIFICATION		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, North New Guinea
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		bpg
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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

Severely endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
432
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Estimated to be closer to 200 speakers now.

DATE OF INFO: 1975

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 northeast coast east of Sarmi and west of Demta

Endangered

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

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
790
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers comes from SIL (2006).

PLACES: Indonesia;

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
600
Native speakers worldwide

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LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

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