Endangered Languages Project

ALSO KNOWN AS		Mortlock, Nomoi
CLASSIFICATION		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Micronesian
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		mrl
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Upper Mortlock Mid Mortlock Lower Mortlock
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
5,900
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"1,692 Upper Mortlock, 1,757 Mid Mortlock, 2,455 Lower Mortlock, about 1,000 elsewhere." Data for the number of native speakers comes from the 1989 census.

3rd	2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger		UNESCO Publishing	Paris	http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas	Christopher Moseley (ed.)	Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub	5,904		1000-9999		Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)			5.5811,153.5668
		World Oral Literature Project				http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.		5,904		1000-9999		Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
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	5,900	1989	1000-9999	"1,692 Upper Mortlock, 1,757 Mid Mortlock, 2,455 Lower Mortlock, about 1,000 elsewhere." Data for the number of native speakers comes from the 1989 census.	Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	Micronesia;	Upper Mortlock; Mid Mortlock; Lower Mortlock

Mortlockese