La información está incompleta “Sociolinguistic Survey of the Pongu People” . Stephen Dettweiler and Sonia Dettweiler (2002)
Susceptible de extinción
60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
>20,000
FECHA DE INFORMACIÓN
1992
TRANSMISIÓN
MÁS SOBRE LA VITALIDAD
"We did not meet anyone who is ethnically Pongu but does not use Pongu as his mother tongue."
ACTITUD DEL HABLANTE
Positive
APOYO INSTITUCIONAL
Radio Niger has a “request” program in the Pongu language three times a week.
OTRAS LENGUAS UTILIZADAS POR LA COMUNIDAD
Hausa
English
COMENTARIOS SOBRE CONTEXTO DE LA LENGUA
"The Pongu display a strong interest in maintaining their own language and culture. "
DESCRIPCIÓN DE LA UBICACIÓN
Gumna District and Tegina District
La información está incompleta “Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger” . Christopher Moseley (ed.) (2010) UNESCO Publishing
Con amenaza de extinción
20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
7,800
La información está incompleta “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press
La información está incompleta “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
Susceptible de extinción
20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
30,000
Data for the number of native speakers comes from SIL (2003).