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CLASSIFICATION		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, West Flores
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		ror
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Information from: “Challenges and Prospect of Maintaining Rongga: an Ethnographic Report” . I Wayan Arka (2004)

Threatened

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
4,000
Native speakers worldwide

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"Community-internal and community-external factors for language maintenance or loyalty
disadvantage Rongga. The following combined factors impose heavy pressure on Rongga:
a negative attitude towards their language, the small size of the population, unstable
bilingualism favouring Indonesian, unhelpful national and regional/local settings (e.g. the national language policy, its non lingua franca status, low participation in regional
politics)."

"Rongga is relatively healthy only in certain places at the moment, particularly in its core
interior territories, e.g. the southern part of the village of Bamo, but it is endangered in
other parts,such asin Tanarata. The prospect of itssurvival appearsto be quite faintsince
even Rongga in the interior parts is now under serious threat due to the opening of a big
new road and also an upgrade of the existing ones for a mining project."

PLACES: Spoken in the eastern part ofthe Manggarai regency, between Manggarai and Ngadha, Flores island, Indonesia.

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken mainly in the villages of
Tanarata, Bamo, and Watunggene, Kota Komba sub-district, in the regency of West Flores or Manggarai.

Threatened

40 percent certain, based on the evidence available
5,000
Native speakers worldwide

DOMAINS OF USE
GOVERNMENT SUPPORT: No support
INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT: No support
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: Most Ronggan speaker are multilingual. Indonesian and Manggarai are used as the languages of instruction in schools.

PLACES: Indonesia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken in three villages in the southern part of the East Manggarai Regency. Along the border between Manggarai and Ngadha on the Island of Flores

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2,120
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 2000

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
3,000
Native speakers worldwide

PLACES: Flores Island, Indonesia

	2012	LL-MAP (Language and Location: A Map Accessibility Project)						Institute for Language Information and Technology	Eastern Michigan University	http://llmap.org	Anthony Aristar and Helen Aristar-Dry and Yichun Xie	Anthony Aristar, Helen Aristar-Dry and Yichun Xie. 2012. "LL-MAP (Language and Location: A Map Accessibility Project)." Online: http://llmap.org.																		-8.819653,120.748592
	2004	"Documenting Rongga" HRELP Abstract								http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=28	Arka, I Wayan	Arka, I Wayan. 2004. ""Documenting Rongga" HRELP Abstract." Online: http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=28.		3,000		1000-9999							Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)					Flores Island, Indonesia
	2010	Maintaining Vera in Rongga: Struggles over Culture, Tradition, and Language in Modern Manggarai, Flores, Indonesia	Endangered Languages of Austronesia	90-109	Margaret Florey	Oxford University Press					I Wayan Arka	I Wayan Arka. 2010. "Maintaining Vera in Rongga: Struggles Over Culture, Tradition, and Language in Modern Manggarai, Flores, Indonesia." In Endangered Languages of Austronesia, edited by Margaret Florey. 90-109. Oxford University Press.	HHOLD	5,000		1000-9999	Indonesian is the most prestegious language and is used as the language of wider communication. It is also used in church services	Indonesian, Manggarai, other local languages	No support	Most Ronggan speaker are multilingual. Indonesian and Manggarai are used as the languages of instruction in schools.	No support	The entire community generally speaks Indonesian and Manggarai	Threatened (40 percent certain, based on the evidence available)			12		Indonesia	Spoken in three villages in the southern part of the East Manggarai Regency. Along the border between Manggarai and Ngadha on the Island of Flores	-8.821, 120.797
	2004	Challenges and Prospect of Maintaining Rongga: an Ethnographic Report	Proceedings of the Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society							http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/2123/138/1/ALS-20050630-WA.pdf	I Wayan Arka	I Wayan Arka. 2004. "Challenges and Prospect of Maintaining Rongga: An Ethnographic Report." In Proceedings of the Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, Online: http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/2123/138/1/ALS-20050630-WA.pdf.		4,000		1000-9999							Threatened (80 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	11	"Community-internal and community-external factors for language maintenance or loyalty disadvantage Rongga. The following combined factors impose heavy pressure on Rongga: a negative attitude towards their language, the small size of the population, unstable bilingualism favouring Indonesian, unhelpful national and regional/local settings (e.g. the national language policy, its non lingua franca status, low participation in regional politics)." "Rongga is relatively healthy only in certain places at the moment, particularly in its core interior territories, e.g. the southern part of the village of Bamo, but it is endangered in other parts,such asin Tanarata. The prospect of itssurvival appearsto be quite faintsince even Rongga in the interior parts is now under serious threat due to the opening of a big new road and also an upgrade of the existing ones for a mining project."		12	Spoken in the eastern part ofthe Manggarai regency, between Manggarai and Ngadha, Flores island, Indonesia.	Spoken mainly in the villages of Tanarata, Bamo, and Watunggene, Kota Komba sub-district, in the regency of West Flores or Manggarai.
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	2,120	2000	1000-9999							Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)

Rongga

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Threatened

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available

4,000

Threatened

40 percent certain, based on the evidence available

5,000

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

2,120

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

3,000

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Rongga

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Threatened

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available

4,000

Threatened

40 percent certain, based on the evidence available

5,000

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

2,120

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

3,000

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