Information from: “The Xo'ini Dialect” (85-102) . Ehsan Yarshater (2002)
Severely endangered
60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
100-999
"The dominant language of the village [of Xo'in]... is Azari-Turkish, but a number of older people still managed to speak the Xo'ini dialect, when I visited the village in early October of 1960... The village had been declining for a number of years and had no more than some 170 families or eight to nine hundred souls."
DATE OF INFO
1960-1963
TRANSMISSION
MORE ON VITALITY
"The dominant language in Xo'in is now Turkish and the original dialect is disappearing."
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS
Data is from the early 1960s; no more recent information available.
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
No estimate available
PLACES
Iran;
Information from: “Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger” . Christopher Moseley (ed.) (2010) UNESCO Publishing