Endangered Languages Project - Alekano

Alekano

^{[aka Gahuku, Gafuku, Gahuku-Gama]}

Classification: Trans-New Guinea

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vulnerable

ALSO KNOWN AS		Gahuku, Gafuku, Gahuku-Gama, Zo'maga
CLASSIFICATION		Trans-New Guinea, Kainantu-Goroka
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		gah
DOWNLOAD		As csv
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Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
25,000
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers comes from SIL (1999).

PLACES: Papua New Guinea;

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
16,000
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1981

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
25,000
Native speakers worldwide

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~7000
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"I have worked in the Gahuku area since 1959 under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, and a fairly comprehensive description of that language is now in print (Deibler 1975)."

DATE OF INFO: 1959-1976

PLACES: Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "Gahuku is the name most commonly used for the language spoken by some 7000 people in the area surrounding the town of Goroka."

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~40,000
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1959-1979

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: "Tok Pisin is used by almost everyone as a means of communication."
Scripts (Writing system): Latin script

PLACES: Papua New Guinea;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "Surrounding, but mostly to the north and northwest of, the town of Goroka in
the Eastern Highlands Province... There are some fifty villages within the Alekano area."

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LOCATION INFORMATION

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Information from: “Dictionaries of Alekano - English and English - Alekano Compiled by Wanimapi” . Ellis W. Deibler (2008) Summer Institute of Linguistics