Endangered Languages Project - Kayupulau

Kayupulau

^{[aka Kajupulau,]}

Classification: Austronesian

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severely endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Kajupulau
CLASSIFICATION		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, North New Guinea
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		kzu
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Australia and the Pacific” (424-557) . Stephen A Wurm (2007) Routledge

Severely endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
573
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Recent estimates indicate that there are now no more than fifty speakers, all of them over fifty years of age.

DATE OF INFO: 1978

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
TRANSMISSION
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
More on Orthography: There is no literacy in it.

PLACES: Indonesia: Irian Jaya

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken in two island villages in Jayapura harbour.

Severely endangered

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

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
50
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
573
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
50 (2000 S. Wurm). Ethnic population: 573 (1978 SIL)

DATE OF INFO: 1978

PLACES: Indonesia;

Severely endangered

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

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LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

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