Endangered Languages Project - Tofanma

Tofanma

^{[aka Tofamna,]}

Classification: Namla-Tofanma

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vulnerable

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ALSO KNOWN AS		Tofamna
CLASSIFICATION		Namla-Tofanma
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		tlg
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Information from: “The status of the least documented language families in the world” (177-212) . Hammarström, Harald (2010)

Vulnerable

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
251
Native speakers worldwide

TRANSMISSION

Endangered

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

DATE OF INFO: 1993

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
More on Orthography: No literacy in it.

PLACES: Indonesia: Irian Jaya

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken in a village about 100km south-southwest of Jayapura just east of the Nawa River, just north ot its junction with the Upper Idenburg River, in northeastern Irian Jaya.

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
90
Native speakers worldwide

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
90
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
250
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 2005 (SIL)

PLACES: Indonesia;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Papua: South Jayapuraborder area, Keerom Regency, Senggi subdistrict, Tofanma Satu, Tofanma Dua, and most of Namla villages.

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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