Bukiyip
[aka Mountain Arapesh, Kavu, Kawu]Classification: Torricelli
·endangered
Classification: Torricelli
·endangered
Mountain Arapesh, Kavu, Kawu, Bukiyúp, Arapesh |
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Torricelli, Arapeshan |
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Information from: “Australasia and the Pacific” (425-577) . Stephen Wurm (2007) , Christopher Moseley · Routledge
In 1995, about 12,000 speakers (including 5,000 coastal Arapesh) were reported. Latest reports mention 10,304.
Many children are unwilling to speak it, and quite a few of them do not know it at all, or not properly. Even many adults are unwilling to speak it. There is a decided shift of the speakers to Tok Pisin.
Tok Pisin
Some literacy
East Sepik Province. Spoken in the northern central part of the East Sepik Province, in the Yangoru District, Torricelli mountains, northeast of Bumbita Arapesh.
Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 18th Edition” . Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig · SIL International
Tok Pisin [tpi]
"Shifting to Tok Pisin [tpi]. Many children and adults unwilling to speak the language."
"East Sepik Province, west Yangoru district, Torricelli mountains; some in Sandaun Province, Attape Lumi district."
Information from: “Sepik languages: checklist and preliminary classification” . Laycock, Donald C. (1973) , Wurm, Stephen A. · Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, Department of Linguistics
46 villages: Arohemi, Balam, But, Dagua, Japuain, Kauk, Kuminim, Kwotai, Lowan, Magofen, Misuam, Smain, Sowam, Urip, Woginara No. 1, Woginara No. 2, Ahiglium, Belagel, Bonahoitam, Bubuamo, Dunigi, Ilipaiem, Kaboibus, Kairiru, Kuragamon, Malapaiem, Nimbihu, Ulunkohoitu, Yabominu, Chaulagunem, Mendamen, Nagipaem, Nambenogwen, Yalahin, Yamil No. 1, Yamil No. 2, Yamil No. 3, Baranga, Imbia, Loneim, Asaspas, Balup, Malin, Matapau, Walihiga, and Womisis.