"In more than half of the settlements with a Jeri population, Jeri.kuo is not spoken any more. In about a third of the remaining 17 villages, only 3-15 semi-speakers of the oldest generation are found, and even among settlements with a sizeable number of remaining speakers, there are only a few exceptions to the rule that the transmission of the language to the next generation is now interrupted."

"The Jeri as a whole are either (at least) bilingual in Jeri.kuo and a dominant language [Sienare or Manding], with an observable tendency for language shift, or have already completed the process of shift and abandoned Jeri.kuo... it is explicitly argued that the new language (Manding) 'is better for the young ones', or will 'give them an advantage.'"