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ALSO KNOWN AS		Marijedi, Murijadi, Marijadi
CLASSIFICATION		Western Daly
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		zmy
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Information from: “Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages” . Christopher Moseley (2007) Routledge

Critically endangered

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<20
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"In 1981, perhaps twenty speakers were reported. Today there are only a few..."

DATE OF INFO: 1981

DOMAINS OF USE

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

TRANSMISSION

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"No literacy in it. ... Mariyedia is moribund."

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Kriol

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

"...speakers have shifted to the English-based pidgin lingua franca Kriol."

PLACES: Australia: Northwestern Northern Territory, southwest of Darwin, south of the Manda language.

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
20
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers comes from Wurm and Hattori (1981).

PLACES: Australia;

Severely endangered

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

				World Oral Literature Project				http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.		20		10-99				Severely Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
070071197X	3	1	2007	Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages		Routledge	Abingdon		Christopher Moseley	Moseley, Christopher. 2007. Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, 1 edn. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 070071197X	ll_pub	<20	1981	10-99	"In 1981, perhaps twenty speakers were reported. Today there are only a few..."	Kriol	"...speakers have shifted to the English-based pidgin lingua franca Kriol."	Critically Endangered (100 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	15	"No literacy in it. ... Mariyedia is moribund."	15	15	Australia: Northwestern Northern Territory, southwest of Darwin, south of the Manda language.
		16	2009	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)	M. Paul Lewis	SIL International	Dallas, TX	http://www.ethnologue.com/		Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)	ll_pub	20		10-99	Data for the number of native speakers comes from Wurm and Hattori (1981).			Severely Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)					Australia;

Mariyedi

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Critically endangered

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available

<20

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

20

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

20

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Mariyedi

Language metadata

Language information by source

Critically endangered

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available

<20

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

20

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

20

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