Endangered Languages Project - Tause

Tause

^{[aka Doa, Darha,]}

Classification: Lakes Plain

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endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Doa, Darha
CLASSIFICATION		Lakes Plain
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		tad
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Weirate Tause Deirate
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

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
300
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Speaker number data: (S. Wurm 2000)

PLACES: Indonesia;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: West Lakes Plain (Paniai), southwest of Danau Bira, Deraposi area, northeast of Fayu [fau], northwest of Edopi [dbf].

Threatened

40 percent certain, based on the evidence available
350
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1993

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: Bilingualism in Fayu is present especially with the young generation, and pressure is exerted upon the language by it. No Indonesian spoken.
More on Orthography: No literacy in it.

PLACES: Indonesia: Irian Jaya

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken northeast of the juncture of the Tariku (Dou) and Muyabe (Fou) rivers, north of the upper Rouffaer River, around Deraposi, in the western central part of non-peninsular Irian Jaya.

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
300
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
300
Native speakers worldwide

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