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ALSO KNOWN AS		Morori, Moraori, Moaraeri, Morari
CLASSIFICATION		Isolate, Pacific
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		mok
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Information from: “Report on the Merauke Subdistrict Survey Papua, Indonesia” . Myo-Sook Sohn; Randy Lebold; and Ron Kriens (2009)

Endangered

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available
< 150
Native speakers worldwide
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"... the Morori language in Wasur is not well preserved and is dying out due to the influence of outsiders. The Morori language is spoken only in Wasur, and the number of speakers is only ten families."

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"According to the villagers in Wasur, there is no other place where people speak the Morori language. There are less than ten families living in Wasur, and young people and children cannot speak Morori. It is almost dying out. They reported that they could understand some Marind and Kanum."

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Indonesian

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

"The people in Wasur speak Morori with their parents and during traditional ceremonies, but speak both Morori and Indonesian with their spouses, siblings, friends, and in the fields. They speak only Indonesian at the market, the clinic, in the church service, and in the village’s representative meetings. They speak Indonesian with their spouse and siblings more than their mother tongue."

PLACES: Indonesia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Wasur Village, Merauke Subdistrict, Merauke Regency, Papua Province, Indonesia

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Village population is 346.
"The people in this village preferred that the village name be spelled 'Moraori,' although they pronounce the village name 'Marori.'"

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
50
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
250
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers and for the ethnic population come from M. Donohue (1998).

DATE OF INFO: 1998

PLACES: Indonesia;

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

Endangered

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

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

PLACES: Indonesia: Irian Jaya

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken in the extreme southwestern corner area of Irian Jaya, close to the Papua New Guinea border, east of Merauke.

Severely endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<119
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
119
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"Marori language is highly endangered. There are several fluent speakers left, out of a total of 52 families or 119 people. Marori people typically have mixed marriages with Marind and non-Papuan Indonesians such as the Tanimbar people and currently the Javanese. The sociolinguistic survey carried out in 2000 (Sohn, Lebold & Kriens 2009) reports the precarious nature of the language, which I further confirmed when I did my fieldwork in 2008 and 2009. Young Maroris no longer actively speak their language. They may, however, still have passive competence of varying degrees. They almost all speak Indonesian or the local variety of Indonesian/Malay, and also Marind." (p. 151)

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TRANSMISSION
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

PLACES: Indonesia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: in Kampung Wasur, around 15 kilometres east of Merauke, Indonesian Papua.

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
413
Native speakers worldwide

978-3-11-029525-2				2017	The Languages of Southern New Guinea	The Languages and Linguistics of New Guinea: A Comprehensive Guide		Bill Palmer	De Gruyter				http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/185025	Nicholas Evans and Wayan Arka and Matthew Carroll and Yun Jung Choi and Christian Döhler and Volker Gast and Eri Kashima and Emil Mittag and Bruno Olsson and Kyla Quinn and Dineke Schokkin and Philip Tama and Charlotte van Tongeren and Jeff Siegel				413		100-999						Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
0199255911				2005	The World Atlas of Language Structures			Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer	Oxford University Press		New York				2005. "The World Atlas of Language Structures." edited by Bernard Comrie et al. Oxford University Press.																			-8.58333333333,140.666666667
			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	250	50	1998	10-99	Data for the number of native speakers and for the ethnic population come from M. Donohue (1998).					Severely Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)						Indonesia;
			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)								-8.7113,140.7128
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					Marind, Indonesian			Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)				13		Indonesia: Irian Jaya	Spoken in the extreme southwestern corner area of Irian Jaya, close to the Papua New Guinea border, east of Merauke.
				2012	Projecting morphology and agreement in Marori, an isolate of southern New Guinea	Melanesian Languages on the Edge of Asia: Challenges for the 21st Century	150-173	Nicholas Evans and Marian Klamer	University of Hawaii Press		Honolulu		http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4563	Arka, I Wayan	Arka, I Wayan. 2012. Projecting morphology and agreement in Marori, an isolate of southern New Guinea. In Nicholas Evans and Marian Klamer (eds.), Melanesian Languages on the Edge of Asia: Challenges for the 21st Century, 150-173. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4563		119	<119		100-999	"Marori language is highly endangered. There are several fluent speakers left, out of a total of 52 families or 119 people. Marori people typically have mixed marriages with Marind and non-Papuan Indonesians such as the Tanimbar people and currently the Javanese. The sociolinguistic survey carried out in 2000 (Sohn, Lebold & Kriens 2009) reports the precarious nature of the language, which I further confirmed when I did my fieldwork in 2008 and 2009. Young Maroris no longer actively speak their language. They may, however, still have passive competence of varying degrees. They almost all speak Indonesian or the local variety of Indonesian/Malay, and also Marind." (p. 151)	most	the local variety of Indonesian/Malay; Marind		many	Severely Endangered (80 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	14			15		Indonesia	in Kampung Wasur, around 15 kilometres east of Merauke, Indonesian Papua.
					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)
	SIL Electronic Survey Report			2009	Report on the Merauke Subdistrict Survey Papua, Indonesia					2009-018		SIL International	http://www-01.sil.org/silesr/2009/silesr2009-018.pdf	Myo-Sook Sohn; Randy Lebold; and Ron Kriens	Sohn, Myo-Sook, Randy Lebold, and Ron Kriens. 2009. Report on the Merauke Subdistrict Survey Papua, Indonesia. SIL International. http://www-01.sil.org/silesr/2009/silesr2009-018.pdf			< 150		100-999	"... the Morori language in Wasur is not well preserved and is dying out due to the influence of outsiders. The Morori language is spoken only in Wasur, and the number of speakers is only ten families."	market, meetings, church service	Indonesian	"The people in Wasur speak Morori with their parents and during traditional ceremonies, but speak both Morori and Indonesian with their spouses, siblings, friends, and in the fields. They speak only Indonesian at the market, the clinic, in the church service, and in the village’s representative meetings. They speak Indonesian with their spouse and siblings more than their mother tongue."		Endangered (100 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	12	"According to the villagers in Wasur, there is no other place where people speak the Morori language. There are less than ten families living in Wasur, and young people and children cannot speak Morori. It is almost dying out. They reported that they could understand some Marind and Kanum."	14	14	Village population is 346. "The people in this village preferred that the village name be spelled 'Moraori,' although they pronounce the village name 'Marori.'"	Indonesia	Wasur Village, Merauke Subdistrict, Merauke Regency, Papua Province, Indonesia	-8.519, 140.501

Marori

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Endangered

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available

< 150

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

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

50

Severely endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available

<119

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

413

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Marori

Language metadata

Language information by source

Endangered

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available

< 150

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

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

50

Severely endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available

<119

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

413

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