Teanu
[aka Buma, Puma,]Classification: Austronesian
·severely endangered
Classification: Austronesian
·severely endangered
Buma, Puma |
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Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Temotu |
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Information from: “Australia and the Pacific” (424-557) . Stephen A Wurm (2007) Routledge
350 speakers (170 adults) reported in 1989. Recent reports mention 60 speakers including 20 children
Solomon Pijin
Speakers shifting to Solomon Pijin
Some literacy in language
Northeastern Vanikoro Island
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, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
Speaker number data: (A. Francois 2007)
Pijin
Temotu Province, Vanikolo Island, Puma, Lavaka, Emua, and Lale villages