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ALSO KNOWN AS		Makleu
CLASSIFICATION		Bulaka River
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		mgf
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Information from: “The Languages of Southern New Guinea” . Nicholas Evans and Wayan Arka and Matthew Carroll and Yun Jung Choi and Christian Döhler and Volker Gast and Eri Kashima and Emil Mittag and Bruno Olsson and Kyla Quinn and Dineke Schokkin and Philip Tama and Charlotte van Tongeren and Jeff Siegel (2017) , Bill Palmer · De Gruyter

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
120
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
120
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<226
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
226
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
The population of Welbuti village is 226, but not everyone can speak the language.

DATE OF INFO: 2001

DOMAINS OF USE

TRANSMISSION

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"The Maklew language group is a relatively small language that is being threatened because of the many influences from the outside. This is of great concern to the adults."

SPEAKER ATTITUDE

"The people who speak the Maklew language seem to be a small group. They also seem much less proud of their language and culture than the Marind people do. The adults in Welbuti complained to the survey team that their children do not speak their language and sometimes make fun of them for using it. The children themselves reportedly do not speak the vernacular, although they are able to understand it. This was a concern to the adults because they were afraid their language would die out; they said their language would not be spoken anymore in 20 years. Nevertheless, the survey team did notice some older women who only spoke the vernacular language and were not able to speak Indonesian."

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Indonesian

PLACES: Indonesia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Welbuti village, Okaba Subdistrict, Merauke Regency, Papua Province, Indonesia

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
120
Native speakers worldwide

PLACES: Indonesia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "Papua Province, south coast area, east side of Marianne strait, west of Marind [mrz] and east of Yelmek [jel] language areas."

				World Oral Literature Project						http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.		120		100-999					Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
		18th	2015	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 18th Edition		Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig	SIL International		Dallas, Texas	http://www.ethnologue.com		Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2015. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Eighteenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com.		120		100-999					Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)				Indonesia	"Papua Province, south coast area, east side of Marianne strait, west of Marind [mrz] and east of Yelmek [jel] language areas."
978-3-11-029525-2			2017	The Languages of Southern New Guinea	The Languages and Linguistics of New Guinea: A Comprehensive Guide	Bill Palmer	De Gruyter			http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/185025	Nicholas Evans and Wayan Arka and Matthew Carroll and Yun Jung Choi and Christian Döhler and Volker Gast and Eri Kashima and Emil Mittag and Bruno Olsson and Kyla Quinn and Dineke Schokkin and Philip Tama and Charlotte van Tongeren and Jeff Siegel			120		100-999					Endangered (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.															-7.66666666667, 139.416666667
	SIL Electronic Survey Report		2010	Report on the Okaba Subdistrict Survey in Papua, Indonesia			SIL International	2010-008			Lebold, Randy; Ron Kriens; and Peter Jan de Vries		226	<226	2001	100-999	The population of Welbuti village is 226, but not everyone can speak the language.	School	Indonesian	"The people who speak the Maklew language seem to be a small group. They also seem much less proud of their language and culture than the Marind people do. The adults in Welbuti complained to the survey team that their children do not speak their language and sometimes make fun of them for using it. The children themselves reportedly do not speak the vernacular, although they are able to understand it. This was a concern to the adults because they were afraid their language would die out; they said their language would not be spoken anymore in 20 years. Nevertheless, the survey team did notice some older women who only spoke the vernacular language and were not able to speak Indonesian."	Endangered (80 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	12	"The Maklew language group is a relatively small language that is being threatened because of the many influences from the outside. This is of great concern to the adults."	14	Indonesia	Welbuti village, Okaba Subdistrict, Merauke Regency, Papua Province, Indonesia	-7.7561, 139.5049

Maklew

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Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

120

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

120

Endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available

<226

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

120

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Maklew

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Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

120

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

120

Endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available

<226

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

120

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