Endangered Languages Project - Kuku-Muminh

Kuku-Muminh

^{[aka Kugu-Muminh, Wik Muminh, Wik-Mumin]}

Classification: Pama-Nyungan

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critically endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Kugu-Muminh, Wik Muminh, Wik-Mumin, Kugu, Gugu Muminh, Kugu-Mumihn
CLASSIFICATION		Pama-Nyungan, Paman
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		xmh
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages” . Christopher Moseley (2007) Routledge

Critically endangered

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<31
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"In 1981, thirty-one speakers were reported. Today there are considerably less."

DATE OF INFO: 1981

DOMAINS OF USE

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

TRANSMISSION

MORE ON VITALITY

"No literacy in it. ... The language is under pressure from the closely related large lingua franco Wik Mungkan, its northern neighbor. It is now seriously endangered."

PLACES: Australia: Northern Queensland, west coast of Cape York Peninsula, south of Arukun.

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
31
Native speakers worldwide

PLACES: Australia;

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
31
Native speakers worldwide

Severely endangered

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

DATE OF INFO: 2005

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
7
Native speakers worldwide

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