Endangered Languages Project

Note on Australian languages with no known speakers: For some languages, we haven't been able to confirm speaker numbers. In other cases, there isn't anyone who has grown up speaking the language, but there are still people who identify with the language, and who are working to revitalize their languages. We've chosen to include these languages in the Catalogue for this reason.

ALSO KNOWN AS		Wila-Wila, Northern Language, Walmbi, Wila-wila, 'Wila'Wila
CLASSIFICATION		Worrorran, Northern Worrorran
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		wil
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Australasia and the Pacific” (97-126 ch. 4) . Darrell Tryon (2007) , R. E. Asher and Christopher Moseley · Routledge

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1981

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2
Native speakers worldwide

Extinct
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Unlikely any speakers remain (Wurm 2003)

PLACES: Australia;

	2011	How many languages were spoken in Australia?			Also includes subsequent additions by CB directly into ElCat					http://anggarrgoon.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/austlangs-masterlanguagelist-dec2011.xlsx	Claire Bowern	Claire Bowern. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?" Online: http://anggarrgoon.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/austlangs-masterlanguagelist-dec2011.xlsx.								-15.98488583,126.5727527
		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)
	2007	Australasia and the Pacific	Atlas of the World's Languages	97-126		R. E. Asher and Christopher Moseley	Routledge		4		Darrell Tryon	Tryon, Darrell. 2007. "Australasia and the Pacific." In Atlas of the World's Languages, edited by R. E. Asher and Christopher Moseley. 97-126. Routledge.		2	1981	1-9		Critically Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
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	Extinct			Unlikely any speakers remain (Wurm 2003)		Australia;

Wilawila

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Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

2

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

2

Extinct

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Wilawila

Language metadata

Language information by source

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

2

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

2

Extinct

Discussion

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