Endangered Languages Project - Tennet

Tennet

^{[aka Tenet,]}

Classification: Surmic

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threatened

ALSO KNOWN AS		Tenet
CLASSIFICATION		Surmic, Southwest Surmic
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		tex
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Derivational forms and the nature of modifiers in Tennet” . Amargira, Adelino (2006) , Abu-Manga, Al-Amin and Gilley, Leoma G. and Storch, Anne · Rüdiger Köppe Verlag

Threatened

40 percent certain, based on the evidence available
4,000-10,000
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"Numerically Tennet is the smallest member of the Southwest Surmic linguistic family... the population according to Randal (1995:1) is 4,000, but the most generous estimate may reach to 10,000, which covers the migrant groups in Juba, Khartoum, Medeni, Kosti, Port Sudan, Gadarif and other locations."

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

MORE ON VITALITY

"The Tennet have adopted some aspects of Lopit culture and intermarried with the Lopit, but Tennet is still their primary language."

PLACES: South Sudan

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "[The Tennet] home area consists of five villages on the northern tip of the Lopit Mountains, 65 kilometers northeast of the town of Torit."

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
4,000
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Speaker number data from SIL(1994).

PLACES: Sudan;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "South, Equatoria Province, Lopit Hills, northeast of Torit." 5 villages.

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
4,000-10,000
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"The most generous estimates set the Tennet population at 10,000, but the actual number may be as low as 4,000."

PLACES: South Sudan

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "The home area [of Tennet] consists of four villages on the northern tip of the Lopit mountains, 65 kilometers northeast of the town of Torit in southern Sudan [now South Sudan]... A number of Tennet people have moved to Juba and to Khartoum, where they continue to speak their own language."

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

DOMAINS OF USE
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
4,000
Native speakers worldwide

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
4,000
Native speakers worldwide

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Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press