Endangered Languages Project - Enggano

Enggano

^{[aka Engganese,]}

Classification: Austronesian

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threatened

ALSO KNOWN AS		Engganese
CLASSIFICATION		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		eno
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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

Threatened

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

DATE OF INFO: 1981

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

PLACES: Indonesia: West Sumatra Province

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Enggano Island, southwest of Sumatra and on four smaller nearby islands.

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~1500
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 2023

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
Scripts (Writing system): Enggano
Competing Orthographies: Indonesian
More on Orthography: Limited literacy, orthography development in progress. Current stage uses diacritics as well as digraphs not used in Indonesian script. Orthography being used for creation of language materials (corpus, grammar, teaching materials)

PLACES: Enggano Island. Main villages of Banjarsari, Meok, Apoho, Malakoni, Kaana, Kayapu

1,500
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
decreasing

DATE OF INFO: 2000 (census)

MORE ON VITALITY

decreasing

PLACES: Indonesia;

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
700
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
700
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