Endangered Languages Project - Napu

Napu

^{[aka Pekurehua,]}

Classification: Austronesian

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threatened

ALSO KNOWN AS		Pekurehua
CLASSIFICATION		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Celebic, Kaili-Pamona
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		npy
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
6,000
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
6,000 (1995)

DATE OF INFO: 1995

PLACES: Indonesia;

Endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
6,000 4,000
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1995, 1996

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

TRANSMISSION

MORE ON VITALITY

Young speakers tend to use Indo- nesian.

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Indonesian

More on Orthography

There is some literacy in it.

PLACES: Indonesia: Sulawesi Province

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken in the northeastern part of the bulk of Sulawesi, east of Lake Lindu.

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
4,000
Native speakers worldwide

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
6,000
Native speakers worldwide

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LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

-1.33333333333,120.416666667

COORDINATES

-1.2882,120.2536

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Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press