Endangered Languages Project - Ainbai

Ainbai

Classification: Border

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endangered

CLASSIFICATION		Border, Bewani
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		aic
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		Laycock (1973) identifies the two Ainbai-speaking villages as speaking Pagi [pgi], but Brown (1980) classifies Ainbai as a separate language.

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Information from: “A sociolinguistic survey of Pagi and Kilmeri” (193-206) . Brown, Robert (1981)

Endangered

40 percent certain, based on the evidence available
110
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
1979

DOMAINS OF USE
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

PLACES: Papua New Guinea

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: West Sepik Province [Sandaun Province]: Vanimo district: Bewani sub-district: 2 villages: Ainbai and Elis.

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
100
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
(SIL)

DATE OF INFO: 2003

PLACES: Papua New Guinea

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "Sandaun Province, Vanimo district, south of Bewani station. 2 villages."

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
100
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
100
Native speakers worldwide

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Information from: “Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger” . Christopher Moseley (ed.) (2010) UNESCO Publishing