Endangered Languages Project - Gorap

Gorap

Classification: Austronesian

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endangered

CLASSIFICATION		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Malayo-Chamic, Malayic
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		goq
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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
1,000
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1992

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: Malayo-Polynesian creole, with a mixed vocabulary which also contains words from Malay, Indonesian and from the large West Papuan, North Halmahera lingua franca Ternate; under strong pressure from the languages from which the majority of its vocabulary seems to have originated

PLACES: Indonesia: North Maluku Province

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken on Morotai Island (the northernmost large island of North Halmahera) and on the southern coast and hinterland of Kau Bay in central eastern North Halmahera. The speakers are believed to have come from Sulawesi.

Threatened

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

Threatened

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

Endangered

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

DATE OF INFO: 1992

PLACES: Indonesia;

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