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ALSO KNOWN AS		Dian, Dampal, Dampelasa
CLASSIFICATION		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Celebic, Tomini-Tolitoli
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3; Glottolog
LANGUAGE CODE		dms; damp1237
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Information from: “A sketch grammar of Dampelas, a language of central Sulawesi” . Francesca Romana Moro (2010)

Threatened

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available
approx. 9,500 across all the villages; 2,635 in Talaga, 1,451 in Sabang, 3,206 in Sioyang
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 2010

DOMAINS OF USE

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

TRANSMISSION

MORE ON VITALITY

Dampelas is used in daily life, but less so in public with newcomers and not at all in primary schools. Families are commonly bilingual, but even Dampelas speaking parents tend to speak Indonesian to their children in hopes of improving their opportunities for the future. Dampelas men in their 30s, living in Palu, have only passive understanding of Dampelas.

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Indonesian

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

Significant immigration of other people groups is affecting public language use. There are very few people left who are monolingual in Dampelas.

PLACES: Spoken in the villages of Talaga, Sabang, Sioyang, Rerang, and Kembayang in the western coastal area of Central Sulawesi Province, approx. 200km north of Palu City on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia.

Endangered

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2,000
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
10000

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

PLACES: Indonesia: Sulawesi Province

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Sulawesi, on the northwestern coast of the northern part of the narrow neck connecting the central bulk of Sulawesi with its northeastern peninsula, near Bangkir.

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
10,300
Native speakers worldwide

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,000
Native speakers worldwide

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
10,300
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers comes from Himmelmann (2001).

PLACES: Indonesia;

	February		2010	A sketch grammar of Dampelas, a language of central Sulawesi						Leiden University	file:///C:/Users/count/Downloads/A_sketch_grammar_of_Dampelas_a_language%20(1).pdf	Francesca Romana Moro				approx. 9,500 across all the villages; 2,635 in Talaga, 1,451 in Sabang, 3,206 in Sioyang	2010	1000-9999			Indonesian	Significant immigration of other people groups is affecting public language use. There are very few people left who are monolingual in Dampelas.		Threatened (100 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	11	Dampelas is used in daily life, but less so in public with newcomers and not at all in primary schools. Families are commonly bilingual, but even Dampelas speaking parents tend to speak Indonesian to their children in hopes of improving their opportunities for the future. Dampelas men in their 30s, living in Palu, have only passive understanding of Dampelas.	12	13	Spoken in the villages of Talaga, Sabang, Sioyang, Rerang, and Kembayang in the western coastal area of Central Sulawesi Province, approx. 200km north of Palu City on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia.		0.2,120.0
		3rd	2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger				UNESCO Publishing	Paris		http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas	Christopher Moseley (ed.)	Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub		1,000		1000-9999						Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)							.2005,119.8965
070071197X	3	1	2007	Australia and the Pacific	Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages	424-557		Routledge	Abingdon			Stephen A Wurm	Wurm, Stephen A. 2007. Australia and the Pacific. In Christopher Moseley, Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, 1 edn., 424-557. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 070071197X	ll_pub	10000	2,000		1000-9999		Education, everyday public language is Indonesian.	Indonesian		Many	Endangered (100 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	13		13	14	Indonesia: Sulawesi Province	Sulawesi, on the northwestern coast of the northern part of the narrow neck connecting the central bulk of Sulawesi with its northeastern peninsula, near Bangkir.
				World Oral Literature Project							http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.			10,300		10000-99999						Vulnerable (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
		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		10,300		10000-99999	Data for the number of native speakers comes from Himmelmann (2001).					Vulnerable (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)					Indonesia;

Dampelas

Language metadata

Language information by source

Threatened

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available

approx. 9,500 across all the villages; 2,635 in Talaga, 1,451 in Sabang, 3,206 in Sioyang

Endangered

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available

2,000

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

10,300

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,000

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

10,300

Discussion

Dampelas

Language metadata

Language information by source

Threatened

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available

approx. 9,500 across all the villages; 2,635 in Talaga, 1,451 in Sabang, 3,206 in Sioyang

Endangered

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available

2,000

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

10,300

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,000

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

10,300

Discussion

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