Endangered Languages Project - Senggi

Senggi

^{[aka Sengi, Viid]}

Classification: Border

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endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Sengi, Viid
CLASSIFICATION		Border, Waris
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		snu
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Information from: “Australia and the Pacific” (424-557) . Stephen A Wurm (2007) Routledge

Endangered

40 percent certain, based on the evidence available
120
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1978

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: It is under pressure from Indonesian, because of the nearness of Senggi town.
More on Orthography: No literacy in it.

PLACES: Indonesia: Irian Jaya

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken about 100 km due south of Jayapura, near the border of Papua New Guinea, in northeastern Irian Jaya, near Senggi town.

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
100
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
120
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"All data from Voorhoeve (1971), using Galis (1956)."

DATE OF INFO: 1956

PLACES: Indonesia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Papua Province: Senggi, Tomfor, and Umbekwai villages.

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
250
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
250 (2005 SIL). 0 monolinguals.

DATE OF INFO: 2005

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

PLACES: Indonesia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "Papua Province, border area south of Jayapura, Senggi village."

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
100
Native speakers worldwide

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LOCATION INFORMATION

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