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ALSO KNOWN AS		Bilin, Bogo, Bogos, Bilayn, Balen, Beleni, Belen, Bilein, Bileno, North Agaw, Blin
CLASSIFICATION		Afro-Asiatic, Chadic, West Chadic
ORTHOGRAPHY		Roman
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		byn
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Information from: “Blin orthography: a history and an assessment” (93-98) . Fallon, Paul D. (2006) , Arasanyin, Olaoba F. and Pemberton, Michael A. · Cascadilla Proceedings Project

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~90,000
Native speakers worldwide

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: "The language policy of the Eritrean government is to encourage mother-tongue education for native speakers of each of its nine ethnolinguistic groups through primary school (Chefena, Kroon and Walters 1999). When this was implemented for the Blin in 1997, the government provided Blin curricular materials in the language using a new Roman-based alphabet. This overturned a 110-year tradition of writing Blin in Ethiopic script."
Scripts (Writing system): Roman

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

DOMAINS OF USE

MORE ON VITALITY

"There exists a daily radio program in Blin, 'Dehai Gebaylakh' ('Voice of the Masses')"

GOVERNMENT SUPPORT

Blin Language Panel of the National Curriculum of the Ministry of Education

INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT

Committee for Developing Blin Language and Culture

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Tigre
Tigrinya
Arabic
English
Amharic

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
91,000
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 2006

9781589011922		2004	Language Development in Eritrea: The Case of Blin	Sustaining Linguistic Diversity: Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties		Kendall A. King and Lyn Wright Fogle and Natalie Schilling-Estes	Georgetown University Press	Washington	10		Paul D. Fallon	Fallon, Paul D. 2004. "Language Development in Eritrea: The Case of Blin." In Sustaining Linguistic Diversity: Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties, edited by Kendall A. King et al.. Georgetown University Press.					Tigre, Tigrinya, Arabic, English, Amharic	Blin Language Panel of the National Curriculum of the Ministry of Education		Committee for Developing Blin Language and Culture	Most	Vulnerable (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	"There exists a daily radio program in Blin, 'Dehai Gebaylakh' ('Voice of the Masses')"	11
		2006	Blin orthography: a history and an assessment	Selected proceedings of the 36th annual conference on African linguistics: shifting the center of Africanism in language politics and economic globalization	93-98	Arasanyin, Olaoba F. and Pemberton, Michael A.	Cascadilla Proceedings Project	Somerville MA			Fallon, Paul D.	Fallon, Paul D. 2006. "Blin Orthography: a History and An Assessment." In Selected proceedings of the 36th annual conference on African linguistics: shifting the center of Africanism in language politics and economic globalization, edited by Olaoba F. Arasanyin and Michael A. Pemberton. 93-98. Cascadilla Proceedings Project.	EBALL	~90,000		10000-99999	Tigre, Tigrinya, Arabic, English, Amharic		"The language policy of the Eritrean government is to encourage mother-tongue education for native speakers of each of its nine ethnolinguistic groups through primary school (Chefena, Kroon and Walters 1999). When this was implemented for the Blin in 1997, the government provided Blin curricular materials in the language using a new Roman-based alphabet. This overturned a 110-year tradition of writing Blin in Ethiopic script."		Most	Vulnerable (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
0199255911		2005	The World Atlas of Language Structures			Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer	Oxford University Press	New York				2005. "The World Atlas of Language Structures." edited by Bernard Comrie et al. Oxford University Press.													15.75,38.5
	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	91,000	2006	10000-99999						Vulnerable (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)

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~90,000

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Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

91,000

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20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

~90,000

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Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

91,000

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