• Endangered

  40 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 140

  Native speakers worldwide
• MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS

  There are likely to be fewer speakers today.

DATE OF INFO

1978

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

MORE ON VITALITY

The language is under pressure from other larger dialects of the large Mumeng language, and of Tok Pisin.

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

• Tok Pisin

• other Mumeng dialects

More on Orthography

No literacy

PLACES

Papua New Guinea

LOCATION DESCRIPTION

Morobe Province. Spoken inland to the southwest of the western extremity of the Huon Gulf.