Endangered Languages Project - Emplawas

Emplawas

Classification: Austronesian

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endangered

CLASSIFICATION		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Babar
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		emw
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Information from: “Australia and the Pacific” (424-557) . Stephen A Wurm (2007) Routledge

Endangered

40 percent certain, based on the evidence available
250
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1989

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

PLACES: Indonesia: Maluku Province

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken on southwest Babar Island in South Maluku, northeast from the northeastern tip of Timor Island.

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
220
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
250
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
250
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 2007

PLACES: Indonesia;

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