• Vulnerable

  20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 74,000

  Native speakers worldwide
• MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS

  Data for the number of native speakers comes from Barr, Barr and Salombe (1979).

• Endangered

  40 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 2,000

  Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO

1995

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

• Saluan

• Indonesian

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

Under pressure from the large coastal Saluan language and from Indonesian.

More on Orthography

No literacy in it.

PLACES

Indonesia: Sulawesi

LOCATION DESCRIPTION

Spoken on the east-central part of the eastern peninsula of Sulawesi.