Did you know Manda (Australia) is critically endangered?

ALSO KNOWN AS		Manhthe
CLASSIFICATION		Western Daly
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		zma
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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
<25
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"In 1983, perhaps twenty-five speakers were reported. ... The speakers are very few today."

DATE OF INFO: 1983

DOMAINS OF USE

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

TRANSMISSION

MORE ON VITALITY

"The language is moribund."

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Kriol
English

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

"They were all bilingual in the English-based pidgin lingua franca Kriol, or in English."

PLACES: Australia: Northwestern Northern Territory, near the coast southwest of Anson Bay, southwest of Darwin.

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~25
Native speakers worldwide

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
25
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers comes from Black (1983).

PLACES: Australia;

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
25
Native speakers worldwide

Severely endangered

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

DATE OF INFO: 1990

				World Oral Literature Project							http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.		25		10-99				Severely Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
			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.		~25		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	<25	1983	10-99	"In 1983, perhaps twenty-five speakers were reported. ... The speakers are very few today."	Kriol, English	"They were all bilingual in the English-based pidgin lingua franca Kriol, or in English."	Critically Endangered (100 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	15	"The language is moribund."	15	15	Australia: Northwestern Northern Territory, near the coast southwest of Anson Bay, southwest of Darwin.
				Austlang: Australian Indigenous Languages Database				AIATSIS	Canberra		http://austlang.aiatsis.gov.au		AUSTLANG: Australian Indigenous Languages Database. (19 October, 2009.)	ll_pub	~10	1990	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	25		10-99	Data for the number of native speakers comes from Black (1983).			Severely Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)					Australia;

Manda (Australia)

Language metadata

Language information by source

Critically endangered

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available

<25

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

~25

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

25

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

25

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

~10

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Manda (Australia)

Language metadata

Language information by source

Critically endangered

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available

<25

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

~25

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

25

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

25

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

~10

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