Endangered Languages Project

ALSO KNOWN AS		Datagnon, Latagnun, Latan, Lactan, Aradigi, Bisaya
CLASSIFICATION		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Greater Central Philippine, Bisayan
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		btn
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Santa Teresa Ratagnon
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

Critically endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
The speakers have largely shifted to Tagalog, and the process is continuing. No literacy in it. There are very few speakers left. It is moribund.

				World Oral Literature Project						http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.			2		1-9			Critically Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
				Glottolog						http://www.glottolog.org/glottolog/		"Glottolog." Online: http://www.glottolog.org/glottolog/.													12.28, 121.19
070071197X	3	1	2007	Australia and the Pacific	Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages	424-557		Routledge	Abingdon		Stephen A Wurm	Wurm, Stephen A. 2007. Australia and the Pacific. In Christopher Moseley, Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, 1 edn., 424-557. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 070071197X	ll_pub					The speakers have largely shifted to Tagalog, and the process is continuing. No literacy in it. There are very few speakers left. It is moribund.	Tagalog	Critically Endangered (60 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	15	15	Philippines	Spoken on the southern tip of Mindoro Island.
		16	2009	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)			M. Paul Lewis	SIL International	Dallas, TX	http://www.ethnologue.com/		Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)	ll_pub	2,000	2	speakers 2000, population 1997	1-9	2 (2000 S. Wurm). Ethnic population: 2,000 (1997 SIL).		Critically Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)			Philippines;

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