Endangered Languages Project - Isirawa

Isirawa

^{[aka Saberi, Saweri, Okwasar]}

Classification: Tor-Kwerba

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threatened

ALSO KNOWN AS		Saberi, Saweri, Okwasar, Sawuri-Hablifuri
CLASSIFICATION		Tor-Kwerba, Greater Kwerba
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3; Glottolog
LANGUAGE CODE		srl; isir1237
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Western Isirawa Eastern Isirawa
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,800
Native speakers worldwide

Threatened

40 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2,000
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1993

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: Language use is vigorous, but Isirawa is losing its lingua franca and trade language status to Indonesian, and the children are beginning to prefer Indonesian to it.
More on Orthography: Considerable literacy in it- up to 15%%.

PLACES: Indonesia: Irian Jaya

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken on the western part of the north coast, and inland, west of Sarmi. Traditionally the lingua franca on the western central north coast.

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,800
Native speakers worldwide

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,800
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers comes from S. Wurm (2000).

PLACES: Indonesia;

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LOCATION INFORMATION

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