Informations incomplètes “Personal communication about Mapoyo, Yawarana, Pémono, and Tamanaku” . Gildea, Spike
En danger critique
100 percent certain, based on the evidence available
3?
Mapoyo has 2-3 speakers (both Tania Granadillo and Mattéi Muller each claim to know 2-3 surviving elderly speakers, and it is not clear to me that their lists contain all the same speakers).
DATE OF INFO
2014
DOMAINES D'UTILISATION
TENDANCES AU NIVEAU DES LOCUTEURS
TRANSMISSION
MORE ON VITALITY
Mapoyo has 2-3 speakers (both Tania Granadillo and Mattéi Muller each claim to know 2-3 surviving elderly speakers, and it is not clear to me that their lists contain all the same speakers).
AUTRES LANGUES PARLÉES PAR LA COMMUNAUTÉ
Spanish
COMMENTAIRES SUR LE CONTEXTE DE LA LANGUE
Mapoyo has 2-3 speakers (both Tania Granadillo and Mattéi Muller each claim to know 2-3 surviving elderly speakers, and it is not clear to me that their lists contain all the same speakers).
PLACES
Venezuela
Informations incomplètes “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
En danger critique
100 percent certain, based on the evidence available
12
365
a few
Data for the number of native speakers comes from the 2001 census. (Unchanged 2016.)
DATE OF INFO
2001
DOMAINES D'UTILISATION
TENDANCES AU NIVEAU DES LOCUTEURS
TRANSMISSION
MORE ON VITALITY
The number of speakers is decreasing.
PLACES
Venezuela;
Informations incomplètes “Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking” (167-234) . Crevels, Mily (2012) , Lyle Campbell and Veronica Grondona · Mouton de Gruyter
En danger critique
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~12
365
The 2001 census also registered 12 speakers of Mapoyo, but in this case there are probably actually less than a handful of semi-speakers left.
In 1998 the last elderly female speaker of Pémono lived with the Yabarana in an Upper Majagua village, but the language may be extinct today.
DATE OF INFO
2001
TENDANCES AU NIVEAU DES LOCUTEURS
TRANSMISSION
MORE ON VITALITY
The 2001 census also registered 12 speakers of Mapoyo, but in this case there are probably actually less than a handful of semi-speakers left.
PLACES
Venezuela
Informations incomplètes “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press
PLACES
Venezuela
Informations incomplètes “World Oral Literature Project” .
En danger critique
20 percent certain, based on the evidence available