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Classification: East Geelvink Bay

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critically endangered

CLASSIFICATION		East Geelvink Bay
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		wor
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Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
6
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Speaker number data: (Wurm 2000)

PLACES: Indonesia;

Critically endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<12
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1987

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
TRANSMISSION
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: The languages of the village are the Demisa language and the large Waropen language, which both put pressure on it.
More on Orthography: No literacy in it.

PLACES: Indonesia: Irian Jaya

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken by very few in Botawa village, inland from the middle of the east coast of Cenderawasih Bay.

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
53
Native speakers worldwide

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
5
Native speakers worldwide

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