• Threatened

  20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 2,500

  Native speakers worldwide
• MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS

  Data for the number of native speakers comes from Oetzel (2007).

MORE ON VITALITY

The number of speakers is increasing.

• Threatened

  20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 2,500

  Native speakers worldwide
• MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS

  Most Saliba and Logea people are living a traditional life style centred around fishing and subsistence farming.

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

• English

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

English is a bigger threat than Tok Pisin.

PLACES

Milne Bay Province

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS

People live in hamlets of extended family groups and in some cases several hamlets together form a village.