Endangered Languages Project

ALSO KNOWN AS		Bukawa, Bukaua, Bukawac, Kawa, Kawac, Yom Gawac
CLASSIFICATION		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, North New Guinea
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		buk
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
9,690
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers comes from K. McElhanon (1978). 40%% of speakers are monolingual.

	2012	LL-MAP (Language and Location: A Map Accessibility Project)				Institute for Language Information and Technology	Eastern Michigan University	http://llmap.org	Anthony Aristar and Helen Aristar-Dry and Yichun Xie	Anthony Aristar, Helen Aristar-Dry and Yichun Xie. 2012. "LL-MAP (Language and Location: A Map Accessibility Project)." Online: http://llmap.org.								-6.728658199,147.3600464
		World Oral Literature Project						http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.			9,694	1000-9999		Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
	2000	Bukawa Organised Phonology Data				SIL		http://www.sil.org/pacific/png/abstract.asp?id=928474542468	Diane Eckerman and William Eckerman	Diane Eckerman and William Eckerman. 2000. "Bukawa Organised Phonology Data." Online: http://www.sil.org/pacific/png/abstract.asp?id=928474542468.		10,000			Population census: 10,000
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		9,690	1000-9999	Data for the number of native speakers comes from K. McElhanon (1978). 40%% of speakers are monolingual.	Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	Papua New Guinea;

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