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ALSO KNOWN AS		Marridan, Meradan, Maredan, Nordanimin, Murindan, Marrisyefin
CLASSIFICATION		Western Daly
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		zmd
DOWNLOAD		As csv
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Information from: “Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages” . Christopher Moseley (2007) Routledge

Critically endangered

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<20
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"In 1981, perhaps twenty speakers were reported. Today there are only a few speakers left."

DATE OF INFO: 1981

DOMAINS OF USE

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

TRANSMISSION

MORE ON VITALITY

"No literacy in it. ... The language is moribund."

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Kriol

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

"The English-based pidgin lingua franca Kriol is taking over."

PLACES: Australia: Northwestern Northern Territory, southwest of Darwin, north of Moyle River, east of Magadige.

Severely endangered

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

DATE OF INFO: 1981

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
10
Native speakers worldwide

Severely endangered

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

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
20
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers comes from Wurm and Hattori (1981).

PLACES: Australia;

			2007	Australasia and the Pacific	Atlas of the World's Languages	97-126	R. E. Asher and Christopher Moseley	Routledge			4			Darrell Tryon	Tryon, Darrell. 2007. "Australasia and the Pacific." In Atlas of the World's Languages, edited by R. E. Asher and Christopher Moseley. 97-126. Routledge.		20	1981	10-99				Severely Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
		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	20		10-99	Data for the number of native speakers comes from Wurm and Hattori (1981).			Severely Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)					Australia;
				Austlang: Australian Indigenous Languages Database				AIATSIS	Canberra				http://austlang.aiatsis.gov.au		AUSTLANG: Australian Indigenous Languages Database. (19 October, 2009.)	ll_pub	10		10-99				Severely Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
			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.														-14.184522,130.056992
				World Oral Literature Project									http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.		20		10-99				Severely Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
070071197X	3	1	2007	Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages				Routledge	Abingdon					Christopher Moseley	Moseley, Christopher. 2007. Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, 1 edn. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 070071197X	ll_pub	<20	1981	10-99	"In 1981, perhaps twenty speakers were reported. Today there are only a few speakers left."	Kriol	"The English-based pidgin lingua franca Kriol is taking over."	Critically Endangered (100 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	15	"No literacy in it. ... The language is moribund."	15	15	Australia: Northwestern Northern Territory, southwest of Darwin, north of Moyle River, east of Magadige.

Maridan

Language metadata

Language information by source

Critically endangered

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available

<20

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

20

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

10

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

20

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

20

Discussion

Maridan

Language metadata

Language information by source

Critically endangered

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available

<20

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

20

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

10

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

20

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

20

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