Endangered Languages Project - Savosavo

Savosavo

^{[alias Savo, Savo Island,]}

Klassifizierung: Isolate

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bedroht

Alias		Savo, Savo Island
KLASSIFIZIERUNG		Isolate
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
SPRACHENCODE		svs
DOWNLOAD		Als csv
WEITERE RESSOURCEN		OLAC-Suche

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Informationen von: “A grammar of Savosavo, A Papuan language of the Solomon Islands” (xxiii+373) . Wegener, Claudia .U. (2008)

Bedroht

40 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2,500
Muttersprachler weltweit
Ethnische Population
~2,500

NUTZUNGSBEREICHE
ANDERE VON DER GEMEINSCHAFT GESPROCHENE SPRACHEN
KOMMENTARE ZUM SPRACHKONTEXT: Almost everyone on Savo is fluent in Solomon Islands Pijin. Pijin and English are the only languages used in school. Children usually acquire Pijin only slightly later than Savosavo.

ORTE: Solomon Islands

ORTSBESCHREIBUNG: Savosavo is spoken on Savo island, a small volcanic island with a diameter of about 6 km, about 35 km north-west of the capital Honiara.

Bedroht

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2,420
Muttersprachler weltweit
MEHR ZUR ANZAHL DER SPRECHER
Data for the number of native speakers comes from SIL (1999).

ORTE: Solomon Islands;

Bedroht

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,147
Muttersprachler weltweit

Bedroht

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2,415
Muttersprachler weltweit

Bedroht

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2,800-3,000
Muttersprachler weltweit

ANDERE VON DER GEMEINSCHAFT GESPROCHENE SPRACHEN
KOMMENTARE ZUM SPRACHKONTEXT: All speakers are bilingual and speak one or more of the neighbouring Austronesian languages, but it is very rare for a native speaker of another language to learn how to speak Savosavo.

ORTE: Savo Island, Solomon Islands

Bedroht

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,000-9,999
Muttersprachler weltweit
MEHR ZUR ANZAHL DER SPRECHER
In 1976, 1,147 speakers were reported. Today there are considerably less.

MEHR ZU SPRACHBESTÄNDIGKEIT

Use of Savo has been declining among the members of the younger generation

ANDERE VON DER GEMEINSCHAFT GESPROCHENE SPRACHEN

Solomon Pijin
English

Rechtschreibung

No literacy in language

ORTE: Savo Island, Solomon Islands

ORTSBESCHREIBUNG: North of northwestern Guadalcanal Island

Bedroht

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2,420
Muttersprachler weltweit

ORTE: Solomon Islands

ORTSBESCHREIBUNG: Savo Island

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INFORMATIONEN ZUM ORT

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Informationen von: “A grammar of Savosavo, A Papuan language of the Solomon Islands” (xxiii+373) . Wegener, Claudia .U. (2008)