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ALSO KNOWN AS		Lovaea, Lovaia
CLASSIFICATION		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Timor
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		lva
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Information from: “Australia and the Pacific” (424-557) . Stephen A Wurm (2007) Routledge

Critically endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
50
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Since the East Timor massacres and deportations before independence there are probably very many fewer. The area where Maku’a was spoken was very much affected by the rampages and killings by the militia. It was feared that the last speakers of Maku’a may have perished as a result of this. However, as was mentioned above in the section on language endangerment, it is now known that there are still some surviving speakers of Maku’a. The language is moribund.

DATE OF INFO: 1981

TRANSMISSION
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
More on Orthography: No literacy in it.

PLACES: Timor-Leste

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken on the northeastern tip of Timor Island.

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
50
Native speakers worldwide

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
50
Native speakers worldwide

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
50
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
50
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers comes from Wurm and Hattori (1981).

PLACES: East Timor

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Northeast tip of Timor Island, around Tutuala.

		3rd	2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger				UNESCO Publishing	Paris	http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas	Christopher Moseley (ed.)	Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub		50		10-99			Severely Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)				-8.4017,127.2271
070071197X	3	1	2007	Australia and the Pacific	Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages	424-557		Routledge	Abingdon		Stephen A Wurm	Wurm, Stephen A. 2007. Australia and the Pacific. In Christopher Moseley, Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, 1 edn., 424-557. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 070071197X	ll_pub		50	1981	10-99	Since the East Timor massacres and deportations before independence there are probably very many fewer. The area where Maku’a was spoken was very much affected by the rampages and killings by the militia. It was feared that the last speakers of Maku’a may have perished as a result of this. However, as was mentioned above in the section on language endangerment, it is now known that there are still some surviving speakers of Maku’a. The language is moribund.	Fataluku	Critically Endangered (60 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	15	Timor-Leste	Spoken on the northeastern tip of Timor Island.
				World Oral Literature Project						http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.			50		10-99			Severely Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
		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	50	50		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)		East Timor	Northeast tip of Timor Island, around Tutuala.

Maku'a

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Critically endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available

50

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

50

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

50

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

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Maku'a

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Critically endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available

50

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

50

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

50

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

50

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