Endangered Languages Project - Sobei

Sobei

^{[aka Biga, Imasi, Liki]}

Classification: Austronesian

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endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Biga, Imasi, Liki
CLASSIFICATION		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, North New Guinea
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		sob
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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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
1,850
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1987

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: The children are bilingual in Indonesian and tend to prefer it to Sobei. Intermarriage with members of other language groups is increasing, and Irianese Malay (Pasar Malay) is used with people from other language areas. Sobei speakers are beginning to shift to it.

PLACES: Indonesia: Irian Jaya

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken on the central north coast of Irian Jaya, at Ahus and at Sarmi, and in various dialectal forms on islands to the north of Sobei and Sarmi.

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,000
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
1850
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Speaker number data: (S. Wurm 2000). Ethnic population data: (D. Tryon 2000)

PLACES: Indonesia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Papua, Sarmi Regency, Sarmi subdistrict, north coast area east of Sarm

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,000
Native speakers worldwide

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,000
Native speakers worldwide

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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