Endangered Languages Project - Erokwanas

Erokwanas

Classification: Austronesian

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endangered

CLASSIFICATION		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, South Halmahera-West New Guinea
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		erw
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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

Endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
250
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
There has been no recent work on this language. Speaker numbers given here are quite dated.

DATE OF INFO: 1977

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

PLACES: Indonesia: Irian Jaya

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Northwest coast of Bomberai Peninsula

Endangered

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

DATE OF INFO: 2000 (Wurm)

PLACES: Indonesia;

Endangered

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

Endangered

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

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LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

-2.8113,132.6708

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