Endangered Languages Project - Taiap

Taiap

^{[aka East Parana, Guana, Chuala]}

Classification: Isolate

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severely endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		East Parana, Guana, Chuala, Chana, Gapun
CLASSIFICATION		Isolate, Pacific
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		gpn
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Language isolates in the New Guinea region” . Harald Hammarström (2017) , Lyle Campbell, Thomas Dougherty, and Alexander D. Smith · London: Routledge

Severely endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
75
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"The detailed sociolinguistic fieldwork by Kulick and Stroud (1990) counted exactly 89 fluent Taiap speakers, all multilingual to various degrees, but already by then no child under 10 had an active command of Taiap."

TRANSMISSION

MORE ON VITALITY

In 1990, no children under 10 had an active command of Taiap.

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "Village of Gapun, located on the north coast of Papua New Guinea (some 10 miles inland) near the border of East Sepik and Madang provinces."

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
89
Native speakers worldwide

Severely endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
65
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
97
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
38 married or previously married adults + 13 unmarried teenagers + 46 children under 13 = 97 villagers. "[N]one of the 32 village children aged 1-8 actively uses the village vernacular in verbal interactions."

TRANSMISSION
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: "Tok Pisin and Taiap are used in constant interplay"

PLACES: Papua New Guinea

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Gapun village

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
74
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1970

PLACES: Papua New Guinea

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Gapun village

Severely endangered

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

Severely endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
74
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
In 1987, 89 speakers were reported. No speakers under 10–12 years old then. More recent estimates mention seventy-four, mostly middle-aged or older.

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
TRANSMISSION
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: Heavy pressure from surrounding languages such as Abu (Adjora) and Tok Pisin.
More on Orthography: No literacy

PLACES: Papua New Guinea

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Northeastern corner of the East Sepik Province. Spoken inland, south of the Sepik River mouth.

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
75
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
(Wurm 2007)

DATE OF INFO: 2007

PLACES: Papua New Guinea

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "East Sepik Province, Gapun village."

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Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press