Endangered Languages Project - Wotu

Wotu

Classification: Austronesian

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threatened

CLASSIFICATION		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Celebic, Wotu-Wolio
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		wtw
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Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
5,000
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Speaker number data: (SIL 1987)

PLACES: Indonesia;

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
5,000
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1987

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: The Luwu dialect of the very large Bugis language is dominant in the area and puts pressure on it, as does Indonesian.
More on Orthography: Some limited literacy in it.

PLACES: Indonesia: Sulawesi

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken on the south coast at the extreme northern part of Bone Bay which separates the southern and southeastern peninsulas of Sulawesi around Wotu town.

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
4,500
Native speakers worldwide

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
5,000
Native speakers worldwide

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