Endangered Languages Project - Ratahan

Ratahan

^{[aka Toratán, Bentenan, Pasan]}

Classification: Austronesian

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endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Toratán, Bentenan, Pasan
CLASSIFICATION		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Sangiric
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		rth
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “"Documentation of Ratahan, an endangered Austronesian language of North Sulawesi" HRELP Abstract” . Anthony Jukes (2005)

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
100-999
Native speakers worldwide

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

PLACES: North Sulawesi, Indonesia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: southern Minhasa

Severely endangered

40 percent certain, based on the evidence available
500
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
30,000 in 1989
SEMI SPEAKERS
a few thousand

DATE OF INFO: 1999

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: The language is evidently on the way to being seriously endangered from pressure of Minahasan languages surrounding it.
More on Orthography: Somer literacy in it.

PLACES: Indonesia: Sulawesi

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken in the northeastern section of the northern peninsula of Sulawesi, extending to the southern coast of the northern peninsula.

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
30,000
Native speakers worldwide

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
30,000
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1989

PLACES: Indonesia;

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
500
Native speakers worldwide

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Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press