Endangered Languages Project - Wiaki

Wiaki

^{[aka Menandon, Miniden, Minidien]}

Classification: Torricelli

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critically endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Menandon, Miniden, Minidien, Wiakei
CLASSIFICATION		Torricelli, Maimai
ORTHOGRAPHY		Latin
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		wii
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 18th Edition” . Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig · SIL International

Critically endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
100
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
1,190
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"100 (2004 SIL). 0 monolinguals. Ethnic population: 1,190 (2000 census)."

DATE OF INFO: 2000, 2004

TRANSMISSION

MORE ON VITALITY

"A few of the older generation speak it some of the time."

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Tok Pisin [tpi]

Scripts (Writing system)

Latin

PLACES: Papua New Guinea

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "Sandaun Province, north of Beli, Laeko-Libuat."

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
561
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1978

PLACES: Papua New Guinea

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: 4 villages: Binanra, Surimorta, Walgon, and Wemil.

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
766
Native speakers worldwide

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LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

-3.55974,142.4135

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Information from: “LL-MAP (Language and Location: A Map Accessibility Project)” . Anthony Aristar and Helen Aristar-Dry and Yichun Xie (2012)