Endangered Languages Project - Mor (Bomberai Peninsula, Indonesia)

Mor (Bomberai Peninsula, Indonesia)

^{[aka Mor2, Mor (of Bomberai),]}

Classification: Isolate

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severely endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Mor2, Mor (of Bomberai)
CLASSIFICATION		Isolate, Pacific
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		moq
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		Some consider any link to Trans-New Guinea premature.

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Information from: “Australia and the Pacific” (424-557) . Stephen A Wurm (2007) Routledge

Severely endangered

40 percent certain, based on the evidence available
60
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
In 1977, sixty speakers were reported, but there are fewer now.

DATE OF INFO: 1977

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
More on Orthography: No literacy in it.

PLACES: Indonesia: Irian Jaya

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken in the northeast Bomberai Peninsula, on the coast of Bintuni Bay.

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
25
Native speakers worldwide

MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
There are at least a few Mor speakers in Goras and an unknown but non-zero number of speakers are still to be found in the traditional Mor area.

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
25
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers comes from S. Wurm (2000).

PLACES: Indonesia;

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
25
Native speakers worldwide

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Information from: “Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger” . Christopher Moseley (ed.) (2010) UNESCO Publishing