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ALSO KNOWN AS		Alyawarra, Alyawarre, Aljawara, Iliaura, Yowera, Illiaura, Iljaura, Ilyuarra, Illyowra, Aliawara, Aliwara, Alja:wara, Yalyuwara, Alyawara, Jaljuwara, Ilawara, Ilja:wara, Iljauara, Iljawara, Illaura, Illura, Iloura, Ilyauarra, Ilyaurra, Ilyawara, Ilyowra, Ilywara
CLASSIFICATION		Pama-Nyungan, Arandic
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		aly
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Information from: “Central Australian Endangered Languages: So what?” (78-86) . Josephine Caffery (2010)

Vulnerable

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,664
Native speakers worldwide

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"Central Australia is also home to 40 per cent of Australia’s ‘strong’ Indigenous languages... These languages, taught to children as their first language and spoken across all generations [include] Alyawarr"

PLACES: Australia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Central Australia

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,450
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1996

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,000
Native speakers worldwide

		2011	How many languages were spoken in Australia?		Also includes subsequent additions by CB directly into ElCat						http://anggarrgoon.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/austlangs-masterlanguagelist-dec2011.xlsx	Claire Bowern	Claire Bowern. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?" Online: http://anggarrgoon.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/austlangs-masterlanguagelist-dec2011.xlsx.												-22.29152242,135.9637093
			Austlang: Australian Indigenous Languages Database				AIATSIS			Canberra	http://austlang.aiatsis.gov.au		AUSTLANG: Australian Indigenous Languages Database. (19 October, 2009.)	ll_pub	1,000		1000-9999	Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
	1	2010	Central Australian Endangered Languages: So what?	78-86				Dialogue	29			Josephine Caffery	Caffery, Josephine. 2010. "Central Australian Endangered Languages: So What?" In Dialogue, 29: 78-86.		1,664		1000-9999	Vulnerable (100 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	10	"Central Australia is also home to 40 per cent of Australia’s ‘strong’ Indigenous languages... These languages, taught to children as their first language and spoken across all generations [include] Alyawarr"	10	11	Australia	Central Australia
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	1,450	1996	1000-9999	Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)

Alyawarr

Language metadata

Language information by source

Vulnerable

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,664

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,450

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,000

Discussion

Alyawarr

Language metadata

Language information by source

Vulnerable

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,664

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,450

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,000

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