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ALSO KNOWN AS		Avinomen, "Baso", Foya, Foja
CLASSIFICATION		Isolate, Pacific
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3; Glottolog
LANGUAGE CODE		bsa; abin1243
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Information from: “Australia and the Pacific” (424-557) . Stephen A Wurm (2007) Routledge

Critically endangered

40 percent certain, based on the evidence available
50
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1993

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Speakers are shifting to the neighbouring Mander language, which also has few native speakers. The number of Foya speakers is likely to be considerably less than fifty. It has been seriously endangered before, but is now more likely to be moribund.

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Mander

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No literacy in it.

PLACES: Indonesia: Irian Jaya

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken on the upper Bu River, in the upper Tor River area, inland from the central north coast area.

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
300
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
(Clouse, Ma, and Donohue 2002)

PLACES: Indonesia;

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
300
Native speakers worldwide

				World Oral Literature Project						http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.		300		100-999			Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
070071197X	3	1	2007	Australia and the Pacific	Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages	424-557		Routledge	Abingdon		Stephen A Wurm	Wurm, Stephen A. 2007. Australia and the Pacific. In Christopher Moseley, Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, 1 edn., 424-557. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 070071197X	ll_pub	50	1993	10-99		Mander	Critically Endangered (40 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	Speakers are shifting to the neighbouring Mander language, which also has few native speakers. The number of Foya speakers is likely to be considerably less than fifty. It has been seriously endangered before, but is now more likely to be moribund.	15	Indonesia: Irian Jaya	Spoken on the upper Bu River, in the upper Tor River area, inland from the central north coast area.	-2.92, 138.89
		16	2009	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)			M. Paul Lewis	SIL International	Dallas, TX	http://www.ethnologue.com/		Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)	ll_pub	300		100-999	(Clouse, Ma, and Donohue 2002)		Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)			Indonesia;

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Critically endangered

40 percent certain, based on the evidence available

50

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

300

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

300

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Critically endangered

40 percent certain, based on the evidence available

50

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

300

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

300

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