Endangered Languages Project - Kaiep

Kaiep

^{[aka Samap, Sumup, Terebu]}

Classification: Austronesian

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endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Samap, Sumup, Terebu, Terepu, Turupu
CLASSIFICATION		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, North New Guinea
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		kbw, trb
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

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

DATE OF INFO: 1993

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

PLACES: Papua New Guinea: East Sepik Province.

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken on the central coast of the province around Taul.

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
200
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
430
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
(Wurm)

DATE OF INFO: 2007

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

PLACES: Papua New Guinea

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "East Sepik Province, Kep and Taul coast area."

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
250
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

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

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
167
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1970

PLACES: Papua New Guinea

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Kaiep village and part of Terebu village

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: "Gehberger (1950) lists Kaiep, Terebu, and Samap as having the same language; however, Samap village now speaks the non-Melanesian language Elepi."

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