Endangered Languages Project

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken on the central eastern coast of Cenderawasih Bay, northeast of Waren. Probably a dialect of the larger Baropasi language.

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
100
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers comes from SIL (1987).

				World Oral Literature Project						http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.		100		100-999			Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
				Glottolog						http://www.glottolog.org/glottolog/		"Glottolog." Online: http://www.glottolog.org/glottolog/.											-2.33, 136.79
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	300	1987	100-999		Waropen, Indonesian	Endangered (40 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	12	Indonesia: Irian Jaya	Spoken on the central eastern coast of Cenderawasih Bay, northeast of Waren. Probably a dialect of the larger Baropasi language.
		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	100		100-999	Data for the number of native speakers comes from SIL (1987).		Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)		Indonesia;

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