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Classification: Isolate
·threatened
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Usku |
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Information from: “The status of the least documented language families in the world” (177-212) . Hammarström, Harald (2010)
Information from: “The status of the least documented language families in the world” (177-212) . Hammarström, Harald (2010)
The younger generation is just as strong in Indonesian as it is in Afra, which points to a weakening of the vernacular.
Indonesian
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
Papua: South of Jayapura, Usku village; west of Namla [naa], south of Molof [msl] areas
Information from: “Australia and the Pacific” (424-557) . Stephen A Wurm (2007) Routledge
160
Information concerning the number of speakers is contradictory, and ranges from 160 (1991, which may be the ethnic group or the population of the village), to as low as twenty.
Indonesian
The language seems to be under great pressure from Indonesian, and is considered to be seriously endangered by Indonesian linguists.
No literacy in it.
Spoken in a village about 50km south of Jayapura.