Endangered Languages Project - Boselewa

Boselewa

^{[aka Bosilewa, Bosalewa, Mwani'u]}

Classification: Austronesian

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endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Bosilewa, Bosalewa, Mwani'u
CLASSIFICATION		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Papuan Tip
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		bwf
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Australasia and the Pacific” (425-577) . Stephen Wurm (2007) , Christopher Moseley · Routledge

Endangered

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

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

TRANSMISSION

MORE ON VITALITY

The speakers are bilingual in the large Dobu language to which children are switching.

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Dobu

More on Orthography

No literacy

PLACES: Papua New Guinea

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Milne Bay Province. Spoken on the central north coast of Fergusson Island.

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
614
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

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

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
610
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
1,525
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers comes from SIL (1999).

PLACES: Papua New Guinea;

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