Endangered Languages Project - Mawes

Mawes

Classification: Isolate

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endangered

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CLASSIFICATION		Isolate
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		mgk
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		Some consider this language an isolate.

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Information from: “World Oral Literature Project” .

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
693
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~850
Native speakers worldwide

MORE ON VITALITY

Mawes is under pressure from Indonesian.

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
850
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers comes from SIL (2006).

PLACES: Indonesia;

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Information from: “Glottolog” .