Endangered Languages Project - Fayu

Fayu

^{[aka Sehudate]}

Classification: Lakes Plain

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threatened

ALSO KNOWN AS		Sehudate
CLASSIFICATION		Lakes Plain
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		fau
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Information from: “Australia and the Pacific” (424-557) . Stephen A Wurm (2007) Routledge

Threatened

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
400
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1991

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
TRANSMISSION
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: Spoken by four nomadic groups, though children tend to prefer Indonesian.
More on Orthography: Some literacy in it.

PLACES: Indonesia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken west of the confluence of the Tariku (Dou) and Muyabu (Fou) rivers in the western central part of the main bulk of Irian Jaya [Indonesian Papua]. Lingua franca of the Western Lakes Plain.

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
350
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 2000 (Wurm)

PLACES: Indonesia

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
350
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
350
Native speakers worldwide

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